"This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire."
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"Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve."
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"There is something wrong when you wait in line thirty minutes to get a hamburger that was cooked for ninety seconds an hour ago."
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"I'm always chasing rainbows, Waiting to find a little bluebird in vain."
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"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones."
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"Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake."
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"Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it."
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"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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"This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers."
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"A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them."
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"The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can’t wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again."
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"Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation"
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"Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side."
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"Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival."
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"You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself."
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"The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today."
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"Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act."
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"On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again."
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"The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?"
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"Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you."
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