#waiting

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

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#financial #happen #just #liberalization #now

I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#always #any #anymore #begin #definition

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. ↗

— Joan Collins

#book #career #charge #dynasty #library

I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for. ↗

— Catherine Crier

#case #chance #either #good #good chance

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#every #finally #gets #how #know

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#character #concentration #demands #energy #get

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust