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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Quotations regarding 'Waiting'

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I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
Leroy Chiao, American Astronaut (1960-  )
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie, English Writer (1890-1976)
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark, English Politician (1952-1999)
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist (1947-  )
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist (1947-  )
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen, Canadian Musician (1934-  )
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins, American Actress (1933-  )
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist (1857-1924)
I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.
David Copperfield, American Celebrity (1956-  )
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
Catherine Crier, American Journalist (1954-  )
Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.
Al Davis, American Businessman (1929-  )
From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis, American Actress (1908-1989)
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, American Novelist (1936-  )
I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Judi Dench, English Actress (1934-  )
You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.
Catherine Deneuve, French Actress (1943-  )
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
Catherine Deneuve, French Actress (1943-  )
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
James Dobson, American Psychologist (1936-  )
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress (1961-  )
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist (1939-  )
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
Adrian Edmondson, English Actor (1957-  )
 
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