Wait Quotes
4683 quotes by 2807 authors
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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It…
— Franz Kafka
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Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on loving Henry more actively than he loves…
— Anais Nin
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...for it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is no way to live, to wait to love.
— Dave Eggers
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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but…
— Ishmael Beah
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Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you…
— Italo Calvino
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In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How…
— Marianne Williamson
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them…
— Randy Pausch
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The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.
— Nhat Hanh
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no…
— Paulo Coelho
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My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.
— Shannon Hale
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The world’s bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and…
— Ted Dekker
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
— Ivan Turgenev
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Oh just wait. It takes a lot of time, that's all...You'll have come to a certain kind of appreciation that moves beyond all the definitions…
— Elizabeth Berg
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Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and…
— Linda Pastan
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You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying…
— Kelley Armstrong
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This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
— Natalie Goldberg
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That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they…
— Walter Dean Myers
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
— Khaled Hosseini
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