"The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy"
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"I wait for the morning of my tears"
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"We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up."
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"She waited for me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the breadcrumb tail until it dead-ended into her."
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"We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait."
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"Hazel Grace,” he said. “Hi,” I said. “How are you?” “Grand,” he said. “I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction.” (He said “in re.” He really did. That boy.)"
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"From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love."
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"Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come..."
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"I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off."
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"The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size."
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"The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds."
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"We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do."
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"When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit."
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"Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first."
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"the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks."
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"In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the moment came, our lives -- and time itself -- would speed up. How were we to know that our lives had in any case begun, that some advantage had already been gained, some damage already inflicted? Also, that our release would only be into a larger holding pen, whose boundaries would be at first undiscernible."
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"Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by?"
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"I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did."
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"Discovery still happens in the writing. You start in nonfiction with a whole lot more going for you, because all the discovery isn't waiting to be made. You've made some of it in the research. As you get deeper into a piece and do more research, the notes are in the direction of the piece - you're actually writing it."
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"But sometimes you just have to be your own eyes. You have to see yourself shining and stop waiting for other eyes to see you."
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