Awaiting Quotes

120 quotes by 110 authors

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind… — Brian Greene
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people… — Albert Camus
To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp… — W. S. Gilbert
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. — Cormac McCarthy
The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses… — Bertolt Brecht
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell… — Ayn Rand
A few weeks later, Iâ€™m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. Iâ€™m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? I'll do it. You want me to let you walk out of here and see… — Stephen King
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. — Herman Wouk
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT?… — Terry Pratchett
I'm awaiting a lover. I have to be rent and pulled apart and live according to the demons and the imagination in me. I'm restless.… — Anais Nin
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and… — Christopher Hitchens
A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was… — Cormac McCarthy
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in… — Albert Camus

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