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"Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found."
"For lawless joys a bitter ending waits."
"My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original."
"I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!"
"If you have time don't wait for time."
"The inner self of every human waits patiently until we are ready to discover it; then it extends an invitation to enter the luminous mystery of existence in which all things are created, nurtured, and renewed. In the presence of this mystery, we not only heal ourselves, we heal the world."
"Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born."
"Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide."
"This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth"
"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
"I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece."
"Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'."
"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!"
"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
"All truths wait in all things."
"When you create art, the world has to wait."
"And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one must have the great patience to wait until they come again. For it is not yet the memories themselves. Not until they have turned to blood within us, to glance, to gesture, nameless and no longer to be distinguished from ourselves - not until then can it happen that in a most rare hour the first word of a verse arises in their midst and goes forth from them."
"There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now."
"Take massive action. So many people wait until they have all the answers."
"You can't wait for the perfect situation. Find something you love. People you love. And get out there and you'll discover it."
