"If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life."
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"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
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"The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order."
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"Life is not an illogicality; yet it is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait."
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"We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones."
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"There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term."
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"I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch."
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"I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
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"If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living."
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"Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life."
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"I believe confidence is all about being positive concerning what you can do -- and not worrying over what you can't do. A confident person is open to learning, because she knows that her confidence allows her to walk through life's doorways, eager to discover what waits on the other side. She knows that every new unknown is a chance to learn more about herself and unleash her abilities."
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"In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered."
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"nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him."
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"First thing you learnis that you'vealways got to wait"
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"Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period."
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"I can think. I can wait. I can fast."
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"You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop."
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"Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success."
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"The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification."
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"We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us."
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