"On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act."
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"Whoa, wait a minute, Coletrane. Are you proposing to me?” “Well I would if you’d let me finish,” he grumbled."
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"If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?"
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"You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said."
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"Wait. Look. Notice. If you keep those three words in mind, you just might survive the next few days."
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"Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you don't notice how the days pass until nearly a lifetime is finished. Then it hits you--the thing you have been waiting for has already gone by. And it was going in the other direction. It's like I've been waiting on the wrong side of the road for a bus that was already full." p. 265"
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"Money begets money. If you don't have that, you wait around to be hired by somebody at the mercy of others. If you have that money in your hand, you desperately try to make the best use of it and move ahead. And that's generating income for yourself."
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"A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood."
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"when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live."
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"We shall understand that when waiting is rightly comprehended, it is a deliciousness that is already indeed a wink of bliss."
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"Do I look like a Jonas Brother? Then why is everyone waiting for me to lose it?"
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"I'm just so excited. We all are. We've been waiting for this [the gold medal] for years now and it's finally here. This meant so much. It just felt so good."
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"I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway."
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"Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer."
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"Wherever you go and whomever you meet, you will find your own love waiting for you."
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