"If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever."
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"I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came."
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"You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity."
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"Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love."
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"When composing music, I just start spilling things out and then wait until they take form, you know what I mean, until I see like a common thread or something."
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"God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on."
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"We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally."
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"Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world."
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"Dogs wait for us faithfully."
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"I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass."
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"The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die."
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"But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future."
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"The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come."
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"I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time."
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"Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out."
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"Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it."
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"Most things, except agriculture, can wait"
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"In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal."
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"Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting."
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"Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it."
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