#waits

He who awaits much can expect little. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#expect #little #much #who

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#am #any #awaits #aware #book

People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#boring #bus #everyone #get #getting

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#days #else #ends #ever #every

On wrongs swift vengeance waits. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#vengeance #waits #wrongs

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#free #him #slave #someone #waits

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#disorder #disrupted #expects #order #prepared

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#everything #him #waits #while #who

Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. ↗

— Jules Renard

#fly #into #long #long time #man

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#deal #good #great #great deal #never