#wait

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#achieved #arrive #assured #climbed #lasting

I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission. ↗

— Leroy Chiao

#aside #astronaut #astronauts #could #done

Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did. ↗

— Alex Chilton

#addicted #another #anything #around #before

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#always #call #diary #eating #evenings

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#borrowed #bother #come #go #i

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems. ↗

— Chris Christie

#effective #else #here #i #i think

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole. ↗

— Sally Field

#any #half #i #make #me

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.' ↗

— Helen Fielding

#bread #break #butter #chip #come

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#bit #chore #enjoy #get #guitar

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#help #master #only #servants #teachers