#waiting

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#basement #basic #closet #dark #down

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#bold #future #grasp #greatest #here

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad. ↗

— Sharon Creech

#waiting #sad

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#waiting #love

Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city -- a planet? -- by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes. "It needs a title," Signorina Scala said. Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun. "It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis. ↗

— John M. Ford

#john-m-ford #star-wars #the-dragon-waiting #imagination

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#before #books #dejan-stojanovic #first #literature

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear. ↗

— David Copperfield

#disappear #i #just #make #me

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically. ↗

— Julianna Margulies

#feeds #get #i #i love #job

There’s another story I know. This one doesn’t have any swords or visions. This one is about a boy who found a girl during a terrible time.” “How did it turn out?” “I don’t know, but I do know the boy doesn’t regret it. Not a minute. No matter how it turns out. Because he’s been waiting for this girl from the time she was born, and if it takes another thousand years to meet her again, he’d wait again. Whatever it takes. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#waiting #love

You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless. ↗

— R.S. Thomas

#imagine #impatient #return #slow #timeless