"Tears are words waiting to be spoken"
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"I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me."
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"We, the elders, have been patiently waiting until the last moment before quantum transformation. The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body."
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"In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism."
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"It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere."
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"Oh yeah, waiting sucks."
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"I like my coffee the way I like my women: after waiting impatiently in a long line."
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"We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong."
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"I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing."
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"Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them."
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"I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call."
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"I'll just wait right here for you cause I know your new love won't last. I wound easy, but I heal fast."
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"You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!"
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"You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches."
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"The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures."
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"That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got."
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"The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form."
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"My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering."
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"My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are."
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"The country we carry in our hearts is waiting."
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