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Bobcat Goldthwaite · Denis Waitley · Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1955) · Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews · Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05 · Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05 · Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-09-05

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) – Walt Whitman
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. – Thomas Davidson
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. – Ed Cunningham
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work You don't give up. – Anne Lamott
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute I thought WE won' – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. – George Eliot
The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. – Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There comes a time in life when you must decide what you will do. That time is now for the past is already done and the future does not wait. – Kara Radon
Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice, But for those who love Time is not. – Henry Van Dyke
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. – Franz Kafka
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died – George W. Cecil
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off. – Henry David Thoreau
They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run, and not be weary they shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 4031 Bible
Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. – Pericles
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. – Leonard Bernstein
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war. – Robert E. Lee
A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. – Joseph Wood Krutch
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. – Margaret Mead
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight! – Mehmet Murat ildan
An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. – George Santayana
As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in Christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. – Paul Sadler
By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light. – Sir Issac Newton, On how he made discoveries

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