#waiting

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emmanuel #lost-at-sea #love #missing #storm

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#face #farm #had #i #into

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#heaven #spark #waiting

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#am #come #everyone #i #i am

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

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

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

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

I don’t mind waiting rooms. I’m waiting on the love of my life, so I may as well have a seat, right?
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— Jarod Kintz

#love #patience #patient #relationships #romantic

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#hope #love #thing #waiting #would