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"If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it."
"I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead."
"It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them."
"You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own."
"Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming."
"I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead."
"Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord."
"Do not lose heart, even if you must wait a bit before finding the right thing. Be prepared for disappointment also, but do not abandon the quest."
"Obviously, you've spent some time in New York. I moved there and it was a bit much. It was a bit overwhelming for me. I didn't want to go out. I just felt a little homesick. I was just waiting to feel excited about something. I went through a phase of feeling kind of dull. It's really easy to shut off in New York and stay in your apartment."
"Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait."
"Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?"
"It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes."
"We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points."
"The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it."
"We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
"For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."
"The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions."
"Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out."
"He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting."
"When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift."
