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Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...

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my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars a...

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...

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For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait...

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Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must of...

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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wa...

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Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ...

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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...

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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid,...

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Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...

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Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiti...

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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...

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We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, c...

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No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waitin...

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Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonn...

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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem wa...

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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiti...

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...

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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way...

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So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have l...

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...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of ...

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You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. ...

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This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flowe...

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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will...

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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning....

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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights Special #1

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now ...

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What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began...

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In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

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

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I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was j...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing ...

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As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself ...

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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fe...

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You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.

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R. S. ThomasThe Echoes Return Slow

He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged...

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I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to...

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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this...

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The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

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Robert JordanThe Fires of Heaven

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a l...

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To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

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Roland BarthesA Lover's Discourse: Fragments

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, India...

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When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

Estragon: And if he doesn't come?Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time ...

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The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

Lucky's monologue: "(...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis footb...

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E: Well, shall we go?V: Yes, let's go.(They do not move)

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the...

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In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means wa...

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Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting...

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what ...

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If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running...

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Stefan ZweigThe Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years...

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Stefan ZweigThe Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are...

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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the ho...

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Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a dr...

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It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has h...

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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

A junkie spends half his life waiting.

It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some t...

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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 the...

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood ...

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I have often been struck by the fact that most parents who are experiencing positive and rewarding r...

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