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Quotes about Waiting

Waiting for the light at the end of the tunnel?
Well stride down there and light the damn
thing yourself!

Samantha O'Connor
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I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann
 
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Nastassja Kinski
 
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931)
 
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Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
 
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Anna Neagle
 
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Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Bradley Whitford
 
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
 
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor
 
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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you.  You have to go to them sometimes.

Alan Alexander Milne : British author, creator of Winnie the Pooh
Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)
 
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Theodor Adorno
 
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Pearl S. Buck : American writer & winner of Nobel in literature
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1973)
 
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

Karl Lagerfeld
 
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
 
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I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen : Gaia Child
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Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Marianne Williamson : Gaia Explorer
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama : Gaia Child
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Don't wait. Don't tell the story later.
Life is so short. This stretch of sea and sand, this walk on the shore, before the tide covers everything we have done.
I love you.
The three most difficult words in the world.
But what else can I say?

Jeanette Winterson : Gaia Explorer
Jeanette Winterson
Source: Lighthousekeeping, Page: 232
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Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.

Thomas Merton : American religious writer & poet, became a Trappist monk & priest
Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
 
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Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. 

Henry van Dyke : American clergyman & writer
Henry van Dyke (1852 - 1933)
 
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In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Child
Robert Grudin
Source: Time and the Art of Living, Page: 102
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Don't let yourself fall in love with somebody just to say that you've falling in love.  Wait and hope for the kind of guy you dream of.

Don't let your age or your circumstances diminish the way you dream.  Wait and hope.

Don't lower your standard just to have a guy in your arms or a vase full of flowers in your dresser.  Wait and hope.

Don't let your fear make you ignore the deepest dreams in your heart.  Wait and hope.

Lisa Velthouse
Source: Saving My First Kiss
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Lee Iacocca
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Sex can be a microcosm of life. Some good times, some bad times and a whole ot of waiting in between.

Mr. Prophet
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell : American mythologist, writer & philosopher
Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)
 
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The man who always says goodbye is waiting for something to happen.

Jacci O
 
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Joseph Campbell
 
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We are the ones we have been waiting for.

June Jordan (1939 - )
Source: poem for South African women by June Jordan
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"Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never..."

Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977)
Source: from the song "It's Now or Never"
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Knowledge is power. What are you waiting for? Get empowered!

Elizabeth Munroz
Source: from the author, favorite quote of her own.
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