"Are you smiling? I'm so angry it kills me. So angry I'm going crazy. I'm just going to wait today. Just today."
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"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
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"She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
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"I'm not waiting for times to change I want to live like a free-roaming soul on the highway of our love."
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"Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow."
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"The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long."
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"The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it."
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"The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions."
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"He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain."
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"And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for."
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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
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"The big money is not in the buying and selling ... but in the waiting."
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"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting"
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"If I had a dollar for every time someone made fun of me in high school-oh wait, I do!"
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"How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!"
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"We wait always for something that does not come."
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"Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come in when deep down inside they know it has never left port."
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"Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace."
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"People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that."
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"The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly."
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