Wait Quotes

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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am… — Edward Abbey
It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog. — Georgia O'Keeffe
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you… — Arthur C. Clarke
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a… — Margaret Atwood
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,… — Daniel Defoe
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to… — V.S. Naipaul
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in… — Mark Van Doren
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems… — Jacques Maritain
It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the… — Thucydides
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a… — Charles Perrault
All good things to those who wait. — Hannibal
When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to… — Rafael Nadal
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they have to bust… — Meg Cabot
I'm pretty sure there will be duck-hunting in heaven and I can't wait! — Mike Huckabee
This will play right into Obama's hands. He's humanitarian, compassionate. They'll use this to burnish their, shall we say, 'credibility' with the black community --… — Rush Limbaugh
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. — George Eliot
All truths wait in all things. — Walt Whitman
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do.… — Robert A. Heinlein
The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the… — Anatoly Karpov
I love movies, I've always been interested in them, but I wanted to wait for the right time to start acting. — Claudia Schiffer
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is… — Wallace D. Wattles
The only thing we can control is what we do in the present. The more we replay yesterday, the further we get from today's opportunities.… — John C. Maxwell

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