#waiting

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#anything #darkness #fast #faster #finds

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. ↗

— Dorothee Solle

#important #life #possibilities #someone #waiting

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#after #children #disciplines #each #eagerly

I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses. ↗

— Jack Irons

#bushes #clear #cross #did #drop

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin. ↗

— Kato Kaelin

#autograph #feel #get #give #guilty

Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island. ↗

— Dick Thornburgh

#clear #congress #constitution #dec #direction

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#been #cannot #centuries #done #enough

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost. ↗

— Steve Waugh

#even #even worse #i #like #lost

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. ↗

— Mae West

#home #i #me #men #send

And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together—year after year—for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'—is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner—or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom—or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room—waiting to be discovered! ↗

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#girls #love #waiting-for-true-love #women #beauty