Quotes with waits

  • 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.

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  • Ezra Pound A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bayard Taylor But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Joseph Bayly Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.
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  • Benjamin Franklin He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Georges Clemenceau 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
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • Woodrow Wilson All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Bill Vaughan An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Applause waits on success.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aeschylus Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Abraham Cowley Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Pepys I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • William Carlos Williams It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Monsters merge and welter through the water's mounting
    Din. All hands, stand fast! A sailor sprints aloft,
    Hangs, swelling spider-like, among invisible nets,
    Surveys his slowly undulating snares, and waits.
    Crimean Sonnets
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Alexander Pope On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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