#waits

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#attend #awaits #dread #dreading #dying

The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#advances #awaits #beijing #bring #china

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ↗

— Horace

#crosses #hour #like #living #out

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#domesticated #female #john #john lennon #lennon

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#acting #action #anything #before #believe

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly

Applause waits on success. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#success #waits