#waited

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#came #difference #events #exalted #i

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#basically #episodes #ever #first #generation

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not. ↗

— Eberhard Weber

#always #did #doubts #especially #i

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. ↗

— Learned Hand

#doubts #down #flow #insufficient #judgments

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#before #choose #doubt #got #happen

I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right? ↗

— Chastity Bono

#back #body #going #hair #i

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. ↗

— Robert Brault

#count #day #lost #only #over