Waiting Quotes
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It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.
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There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you are, your actions define you. If you don’t believe anything is true simply because you can’t logically prove what’s true, you won’t do anything. You won’t be anything. You’ll end up spending your life in a rocking chair looking out at the horizon waiting for an answer that never comes. You might as well be dead. It’s an old philosophical problem.
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I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.
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It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
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Even while you're in pain, your happiness will be waiting
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There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.
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I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.
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If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.
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Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.
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Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.
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When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll be another 10 to follow, because for every song I invest a lot of time in, there's another song waiting behind it.
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You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.
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You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
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There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.
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I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast.
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There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
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Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
