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Quotes about Waiting

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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Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Paulo Coelho : author of The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
 
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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
Source: 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
Source: 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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"You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."

A. A. Milne
Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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If I'm not back in five minutes... wait longer!

unknown : Gaia Explorer
unknown
Source: Movie: Ace Ventura, Pet Detective
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What am I lying here for? . . . We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time. . . . Am I waiting until I become a little older?

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unknown
Source: The Anabasts
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Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Pierre Laclos
Source: Quoted as a "Klingon proverb" by Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, written by Harve Bennett & Jack B. Sowards, 1982
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"If i ever love again, I will not wait to love as best i can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

Dave
Source: What Is the What, Page: 317-318
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It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine.  I knew it.

Elizabeth Berg
Source: True to Form : A Novel
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The heart of myself has always been something just wanting so bad.  I have had an empty center, black as a basement, but also knowing about light and waiting.  Young as I am, I know now that everything is about to come.  Jimmy will be the place for me to learn the real happiness.  He will be my Joy School.  My joy.  Mine.

Elizabeth Berg
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Inside every pessimist is an optimist waiting to be liberated.

Mr. Prophet
Source: Mr. Prophet
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Pierre Bordieu was right: "The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict."

Michael Jackson
Source: In Sierra Leone, Page: 135
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.

Hopi proverb
 
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Waiting rooms were made for books--of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's favorite, the john.

Stephen King : American novelist, short-story writer, author of horror books
Stephen King (1947 - )
Source: On Writing, Page: 149
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