#waiting

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

— E. M. Forster

#go #let go #must #planned #us

I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#follow #golden #golden rule #i #i was raised

Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#waiting #women #men

It's hard being left behind. I wait for Henry, not knowing where he is, wondering if he's okay. It's hard to be the one who stays. I keep myself busy. Time goes faster that way. I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#backbone #compass #gets #i #just

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#everyone #everything #eyes #get #gloss

The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#come #did #doing #economy #else

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#climb #concern #first #ladder #life