Waits Quotes
372 Waits quotes by 301 unique authors
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But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the…
— Mark Nepo
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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now,…
— Christian D. Larson
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No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those…
— James Russell Lowell
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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for…
— Samuel Pepys
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To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen…
— Coventry Patmore
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Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for…
— Jerry Stahl
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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if…
— Georges Clemenceau
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In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The…
— Bruce Catton
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I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long…
— Jason Newsted
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She waits for me, my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs; I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
— Mary Mapes Dodge
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A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not…
— Wendell Berry
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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
— Bernd Heinrich
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The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the…
— Alan Redpath
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Time waits for no man.
— Choi Hong Hi
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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the…
— Walt Whitman
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He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
— Unknown Author
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Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
— Kin Hubbard
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Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening…
— Zhuangzi
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God often waits until we're out of ideas before He lets us know His plans. He competes for our hearts, not our attention.
— Bob Goff
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Life makes concessions for no one; it's up to each of us to learn from our experiences; laugh; cry; scream; shout; do whatever it takes…
— Unknown Author
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I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality…
— John Burroughs
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Who longest waits most surely wins.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height…
— Confucius
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One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Waits Quotes
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