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Waits Quotes by V.S. Naipaul
- In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose…
- A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees…
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- Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. — Aeschylus
- Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd
- The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in… — James Allen
- Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything. — Martin Luther
- He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. — Sun Tzu
- O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — John L. Bates
- Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty… — Pope Leo XII
- Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: He will win who knows when to fight and when not… — Sun Tzu
- The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not… — Sun Tzu
- Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese
- It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the… — John O'Donohue
- I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play. — Darrell Royal