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"We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience."
"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."
"The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait."
"Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for."
"My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they told me was that I had to wait until I was 18 so I could get my education out of the way first."
"In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear."
"We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate...make the devil wait."
"I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse."
"Don't wait until you feel like taking positive action. Take the action and then you will feel like doing it."
"Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie."
"If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great."
"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."
"Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on."
"How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security."
"You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more."
"When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come."
"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
"Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."
"Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know."
"Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!"
