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Bertrand Russell:The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Gabriela Mistral:We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today. Jack London:You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Alexandre Dumas:All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Ezra Pound:A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
B. W. Yeats:The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. Rilke:Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Charles Bukowski:We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting Saramago:Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered. Nadine Gordimer:Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Truman Capote:“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.” Sartre:If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. W. Burroughs:Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. Igor Stravinsky:My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell. Marcel Proust:It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for. Tagore:Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
B. W. Yeats:Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Unamuno:If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Albert Camus:Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
Giordano Bruno:I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Jack London:“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Dante:He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”
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