I Quotes
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“I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.”
“I vowed to our countrymen that I would do everything I could to protect the American people... That's why I said to Afghanistan: If you harbor a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorist.”
“I wagered my heart on her and lost, again and again, but still I would do it. I could never bet on anyone else.”
Source: The Becoming of Noah Shaw
“I wait and pray and hope
I will look forward to each brand new day
thankful for all that I've had and will always have
thankful for the sun that shines again
believing and hanging on
believing that life will go on
it can't help but go on
it shall go on
and in so going
there really is no end
only mornings and evenings
and life that never ever ends.”
Source: In Your Hour Of Grief: When Mourning the Death of a Loved One
“I wait and take on projects that I think can work.”
“I wait and watch to see how long it takes you to realize you were only fooling yourself.”
“I wait for death and journalists.”
“I wait for death
like a lover waits
for love
alone in his room
fondling a piece of
curtain
or by the train tracks
kicking pebbles
under the sun.”
Source: Stems from the Edge of Silence: Writings from the springs of the mind
“I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.”
“I wait for her eyes to open like a flower awaits for sun to blossom
Early Morning Bedtime Stories”
“I wait, for the household to assemble. Household: that is what we are. The Commander is the head of the household. The house is what he holds. To have and to hold, till death do us part.
The hold of a ship. Hollow.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale
“I wait for the morning of my tears”
“I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.”
“I wait for time to wash me away like muddy water. I wait for death to come and wash me clean, to release me from the memory of those other, squalid deaths, which haunt my days and nights.”
Source: Human Acts
“I wait for what comes and experience the joy and delight of the unexpected.”
Source: Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
“I wait on my fix:
I am a poetry junkie.”
Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
“I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.”
“I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.”
“I wait
until they finish up
living
without you
at dawn without you”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“I wait, wait to hear your silent footsteps.
I wait, wait to caress your distant voice.
I wait, wait to embrace myself in you.”
Source: A Whispering Leaf. . .
“I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you”
Source: The Love Poems of Rumi
“I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.”
Source: Villette
“I wait, you play. You speak, I cave. I promise, you break. You game me, daily, you play me.”
“I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.”
Source: Desert Solitaire
“i wait. with all my dreams, i know her heart, and i know i'm almost there.”
Source: The Notebook: Student edition
“I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.”
“I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.”
“I waited a long time, an hour or two, to make that picture perfect. But I wasn't totally satisfied. Then, when I'd finished the shoot, they were about to leave and they suddenly hugged in front of a radiator. I took my camera and that was the picture that ran everywhere - it was spontaneous emotion you could see they were completely in love.”
“I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.”
“I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.”
“I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.”
“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
Source: the bell jar
“I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.”
“I waited decades for a family I never thought I'd have--and look at me now. Threads of Kindness”
Source: Threads of Kindness: The Eleventh Novel in the Rosemont Series
“I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework”
“I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.”
“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”
“I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.”
“I waited for her outside her house and saw her approaching in the aqua-blue dress I had gifted her on her last birthday. She obviously remembered my love for that colour on her and how I always told her that it complimented her skin beautifully. My heartbeat increased just a little as she sat in my car and the scent of her signature perfume- Chanel No 5- diffused in the air of my car. Her sleek-straight hair fell on her face.
"Hi Neel. How have you been?"
I thought about the first month of sleepless nights, crying, sulking and overthinking and said, "I've been okay.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”
Source: The View from Saturday
“I waited for his calls my entire life, each ring a fleeting hope that he'd remember my existence, but in the silence, I learned that sometimes, waiting for someone else can mean forgetting to live for oneself.”
“I waited for my first kiss.”
“I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie!”
Source: Divine By Mistake
“I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.”
“I waited for the perfect moment, but it got bored and left without me.”
“I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.”
“I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
“I waited, hoping you would get better. But you showed me you can be worse.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote