#waiting

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#car #checks #drive #guns #how

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#could #effect #expect #hope #lost

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. ↗

— George Washington Carver

#creator #despite #earth #even #gave

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

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

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

— Paulo Coelho

#always #life #matter #moment #right

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#friends #friendship #life-lessons #waiting #death

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job. ↗

— Susan George

#countries #developed #developing #europe #got

Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#another #atrocious #attack #changed #events

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#opposite #talking #waiting