"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."
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"He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything."
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"[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first.""
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"I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!"
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"Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them."
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"If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late."
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"Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done."
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"Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you."
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"If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are."
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"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove."
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"Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you."
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"Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered"
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"if I wait to be perfect before I love myself I will always be unsatisfied and ungrateful if I wait until all the flaws, chips, and cracks disappear I will be the cup that stands on the shelf and is never used"
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"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"
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"The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue."
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"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work."
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"People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand."
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"People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive."
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"When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living."
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"We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave."
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