"When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own."
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"My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born"
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"Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely."
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"Don't wait to be led...do it yourself, person to person."
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"He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him."
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"It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike."
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"Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts."
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"Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him."
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"I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday."
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"That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by."
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"Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?"
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"I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done."
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"Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write."
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"A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution."
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"And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right to be afraid all the time and never feel secure or trust me. I knew it'd be "See, you're leaving after all when you promised you wouldn't." I knew it but I'm trying to explain anyway, okay? And I know you probably won't understand this either, but --wait-- just try to listen and maybe absorb this, okay? Ready? Me leaving is not the confirmation of all your fears about me. It is not. It's because of them."
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"Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction."
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"The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true."
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"If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait."
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"That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else."
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"That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role.""
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