Waiting Quotes
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
Kami Garcia
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Once while waiting at Auckland airport, Lange insisted on buying himself a newspaper and joined a queue at a newsstand. The woman in front of him turned around and said, 'Good God!' Lange replied affably, 'No madam, you are mistaken. I have never made that claim.'
David Lange
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And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.
Charles F. Haanel
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If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.
Vinnie Jones
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A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing.
Lois Wyse
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I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!
Rumi
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A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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No dictator can last forever. History shows that in the end, people around the dictator bring about change. Of course, a lot of high-ranking officials don't want change because they want to keep power. But there are other good people who want change. I believe they are waiting for the chance.
Lee Hyeon-seo
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Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'
Jonathan Groff
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Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
J. C. Ryle
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
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God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
Adoniram Judson
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Life is a series of adventures just waiting to be enjoyed.
Katrina Mayer
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Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.
Wilma Mankiller
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Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!
William Ernest Henley
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The goal of prayer is the ear of God, a goal that can only be reached by patient and continued and continuous waiting upon Him, pouring out our heart to Him and permitting Him to speak to us. Only by so doing can we expect to know Him, and as we come to know Him better we shall spend more time in His presence and find that presence a constant and ever-increasing delight.
Edward McKendree Bounds