"It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do."
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"My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away."
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"We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been."
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"Why wait for a call when you have a command?"
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"I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!"
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"With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up."
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"Wait 'till I get my money right."
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"All things come to him who mates."
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"A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk."
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"All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination."
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"I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone."
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"The better world we want is coming. It's just waiting for us to stop at nothing."
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"There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good."
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"The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun."
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"Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast."
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"Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside."
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"Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!"
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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work."
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"We are the change we have been waiting for."
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"We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized."
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