"What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal."
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"All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it."
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""I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you.""
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"Well, we must wait for the future to show."
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"As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom."
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"A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it."
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"The world's not going to wait for you. If you have an idea, put some effort behind it and get it out there."
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"He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams."
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"If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now."
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"Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!"
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"Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep."
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"Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things."
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"I learned that all things come to those who wait-provided they hustle while they wait."
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"I enjoyed doing Lipstick, but it scared me. I was very nervous. I couldn't wait for it to be over. It was very real, and I was just a kid."
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"Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human."
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"All things come round to him who will but wait."
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"I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school."
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"I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance."
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"Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?"
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"A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen."
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