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My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming h...

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I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He se...

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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wa...

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waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the c...

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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them...

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I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . ...

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Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the w...

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more abo...

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After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more ab...

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First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and gen...

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He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of ...

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Dan AbnettDoctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By

And oh, heaven - the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter...

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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since th...

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Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential thi...

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Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential thi...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The o...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when i...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ech...

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...

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The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.

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Douglas AdamsDirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our cap...

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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ...

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I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do ha...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

If you were coming in the Fall, I'd brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As House...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten...

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Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is "timing"it waits on the right ti...

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But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...

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In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Al...

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When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...

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my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars a...

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So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

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Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorro...

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For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

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Haruki MurakamiSouth of the Border

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait...

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Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must of...

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Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wa...

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Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ...

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It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...

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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid,...

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Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait '...

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...

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Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiti...

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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's al...

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We should have a path to legal status for the 12 million people that are here illegally. It means, c...

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No more bells ringing in the middle of the afternoon demolishing the rest of the day. No more waitin...

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Jhumpa LahiriUnaccustomed Earth

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (artist)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

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John Piper (theologian)A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonn...

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I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

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Kathy AckerEurydice in the Underworld

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem wa...

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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiti...

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But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...

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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way...

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So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have l...

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...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of ...

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You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. ...

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This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass,the flowe...

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If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will...

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You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning....

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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

If you have nothing left to want, then you just wait. Until there's nothing left to wait for.

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Neil GaimanThe Sandman: Endless Nights Special #1

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now ...

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What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began...

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In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions altogether...

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JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of sufferin...

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I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was j...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promi...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing ...

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As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself ...

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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fe...

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You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.

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R. S. ThomasThe Echoes Return Slow

He had felt that a moment before his making the turn, someone had been there. The air seemed charged...

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I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to...

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I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.