Wait Quotes
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Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.
Marcel Proust
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Some people sleep all alone every night Instead of taking a lover to bed Some people find that it's easier to hate Than to wait anymore.
Billy Joel
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I always felt that, for me, as a woman, I always had to wait around. In all other arenas, I was ambitious and a go-getter, but when it came to dating, I wasn't supposed to go after what I wanted.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
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I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.
Anna Seghers
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I think I'm the only singer who doesn't have a temper. The only time I got angry was at a music studio when I was made to wait for three hours without being informed about the delay in the recording.
Sunidhi Chauhan
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Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
Amber Naslund
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There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
Susan Minot
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I'll fight anyone; I don't hide from anyone. I don't try to get easy fights. I don't sit down and wait. I want to be busy, and I will fight anyone put in front of me.
Dillian Whyte
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...
Billy Joel
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
Marcel Proust
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If you wait until you're an adult to be exposed to the arts, it could seem elitist, it could seem out of reach, it could seem scary.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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We could hardly wait to get up in the morning.
Wilbur Wright
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You must learn to question everything. To wait before moving, to look before stepping, and to observe everything.
Nicolas Flamel
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The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.
Carolyn Mahaney
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Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.
Tony Evans
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
Rumi
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It's tough enough to wait six days for another chance. I had to wait eight months.
Nate Kaeding
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If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.
Hermann Hesse
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To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.
Anna Kavan
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There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.
Isaac Marion