#waiting

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#always #god #importunate #keep #more

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

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#come #gandhi #gone #king #lot

I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#carpentry #fail #i #ready #take

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be. ↗

— Joe Manchin

#firsthand #how #i #know #waiting

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you. ↗

— James Franco

#because #care #directing #everything #feel

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

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#better #blown #gets #me #some