"I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will."
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"God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?"
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"I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence."
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"Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not."
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"If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is."
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"I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage."
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"There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard."
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"Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times"
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"I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell."
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"You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal ."
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"there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting"
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"That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill."
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"Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so."
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"there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails."
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"Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?"
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"When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays."
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"If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting."
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"Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform."
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"Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation."
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"Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you"
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