#waiting

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

We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#access #appointment #back #colleagues #concerns

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

— Malcolm De Chazal

#always #god #importunate #keep #more

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

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

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ↗

— Ben Elton

#collection #conversation #even #holding #natural

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 workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#alleviate #corporate #despairing #economic #fair

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun. ↗

— Jet Li

#because #day #did #only #shots

Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen. ↗

— Lance Loud

#experienced #happen #i #perhaps #something