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Quotes including the word “wait”.

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Giordano Bruno

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

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

W. Burroughs

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Albert Camus

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

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.”

Dante

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”

Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Nadine Gordimer

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Jack London

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Marcel Proust

It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.

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.

Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Saramago

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

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.

Igor Stravinsky

My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.

Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

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.

B. W. Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

B. W. Yeats

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.