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Source: The Narrative Poems

“Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.”

Two Together Purpose Causes Waiting Voice Natural Wonder Hell Devil Murder Excellence Thee Proportion Admiration Cunning Traitor Treason Yoke

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

Men Waiting Technology Inventing

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.”

Sometimes Seems Purpose Waiting Results Strange All Things Method Patient Accidents Providence Employed Be Patient

Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“Let cloud shapes swarm, / Let chaos storm, / I wait for form.”

Form Waiting Shapes Chaos Clouds Storm Swarms

Author:Robert Frost

“The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move.”

Stills Country Moving Certain Waiting Car Proud Built Areas Titles Drivers Falcon

Book:Dave Barry Talks Back

Source: Dave Barry Talks Back

“If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?”

Ifs Knows Years Ends Use Evil Next Waiting Next Year

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?”

Littles Said Waiting Walks Behinds Faster Tails Turtles Snail Lobster Alice Adventures In Wonderland Treading Porpoises Shingles

Book:Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books

Source: Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books: All Four Books

“Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.”

Night Waiting White Behinds Unborn Afar Daybreak

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“If but one message, I may leave behind, One single word of courage for my kind, It would be this Oh, brother, sister, friend, Whatever life may bring what God may send, No matter whether clouds life soon or late-- Take heart and wait!”

Ifs Heart Kind May Matter Would Be Waiting Behinds Brother Late Messages Patience Clouds Single Word Brother Sister Words Of Courage Sister Friend

Author:Grace Noll Crowell

“Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.”

Years Hope Next Waiting Fans Cry Football Baseball Hockey Next Year Gardener Football Fan Baseball Fans Hockey Fan

Author:Robert Orben

“Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”

People Men Looks Heart Young Waiting Too Much Hundred Murder Clouds Terror Dawn Young Man Valleys Dusk Chimneys Valley Of Death

Book:The Valley of Fear

Source: The Valley of Fear

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide.”

Made Turns Waiting Darkness Wind Rivers Bounds Calm Tides Flood Sail Anchors

Book:Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

Source: Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad

“Never go to clubs with metal detectors. Sure it feels safe inside. But what about all those niggas waiting outside with guns? They know you ain't got one.”

Knows Feels Humor Funny Waiting Safe Gun Clubs Metals Metal Detectors

Author:Chris Rock

“You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.”

Knows Looks I Can Turns Waiting Silence Rivers Silent Currents Miles Stillness Miles Away

Book:Stories that could be true: new and collected poems

Source: Stories that could be true: new and collected poems

“Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”

Doe Waiting Honor Spring Welcome Maids Maid Of Honor

Author:Robert Herrick

“Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.”

People Running Waiting Mystery Extremes Lovely Brutal

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?”

Humans Sports Waiting Morning Normal Beats Wake Up Guts Sweat

Author:Joe Kapp

“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days, and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are, the signposts are there, waiting for us to translate them.”

Ifs Believe Dream I Believe Wish Waiting Sides Dark Translate Transport Dark Side Signposts

Author:Gail Godwin

“Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.”

Waiting Late Glory Too Late Ashes

Author:Richard Lovelace

“One will feel the same subtle nausea coming into the city or waiting to depart from it that one feels now in such plastic catacombs as O'Hare's reception center in Chicago.”

Feels Waiting Cities Subtle Chicago Plastic Reception Hares Nausea

Author:Norman Mailer

“Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.”

Hard Dream Action Turns Energy Waiting Goal Effort Responsibility Leader Plans Willing Hard Work Tomorrow Taking Responsibility Executing Perspiration

Author:Denis Waitley

“Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.”

Way Doe Whole Waiting Brain Critics Teeth Beast Insult Admiration Nails Posterity Howl

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.”

Wells Order Waiting Caught

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“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.”

Doe Stills Self Waiting Morning Divine Wine Cups Thee Gentle Feds Insects Nourishment Grasshoppers

Book:Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].

Source: Select works of mr. A. Cowley [ed. by R. Hurd].

“If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come.”

Ifs Play Waiting Information Miracle Dumb

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details.”

Beautiful Time Waiting Common Painting Scene Succeed Draws Details Veils

Book:Thomas Cole

Source: Thomas Cole

“In times of war and in hours of crisis, Senator Kerry has turned his back on 'pay any price' and 'bear any burden', and he's replaced those commitments with 'wait and see' and 'cut and run'.”

War Running Waiting Hours Pay Cutting Bears Commitment Crisis Burden Replaced Senators

Author:George W. Bush

“The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.”

Waiting Voice Sun Dew

Book:Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on

Source: Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ : with Controversial Notes on

“The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.”

Doe Waiting Modern Setting Tales Traditional Settings Charm Fairy Unhappiness Fairy Tale Reverse Persist Charming Happily Ever After Ever After Disillusionment Rejecting Wait For Him

Author:Susan Faludi

“I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.”

Has Beens Ideas Might Wanted Found Waiting Months Absolutes Editors Hung Might Have Been Starvation Exhaustion

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff. During a briefing military stuff in which officials began telling him about missile silos.”

Want Stuff Waiting Minutes Military Officials Not Interested Agriculture Missiles Briefing

Author:Sean William Scott

“We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.”

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.”

People Ifs Thinking Heart Has Beens Real Moments Remember Easy Waiting Realizing Forget Support Imagine Touched Remarkable Warmth Emanate Daily Living Always With You Patiently Waiting

Author:Barbara Sher

“We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.”

Giving Eye Running Waiting Vision Sun Fit Sight Patience Rising Horizon

Book:The Enneads

Source: The Enneads

“Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.”

Men Heart Hands Lying Desire Easy Waiting Views Behinds Sick Sight Difficulty Salvation Clouds Possession Accomplishment Trust In God Presence Of God Afar Perplexity

Author:Owen Wilson

“What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.”

Important Waiting Events Possibility

Author:Dorothee Solle

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“Waiting is one of the great arts.”

Art Waiting Self Control Great Art

Book:The Tiger in the Smoke

Source: The Tiger in the Smoke

“It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.”

People Long Waiting Process Difficult Achieve Fragrance Waiting Around Boudoir

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.”

People Thinking Should Long Waiting Levels Subjects Economics University

Author:Robert Duvall

“I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.”

Years Looks May Waiting Christmas My Birthday

Author:Dakota Fanning

“I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.”

Wells Whole Waiting Interest Interesting Groups Streets Relation Picturesque

Book:Childe Hassam: American impressionist

Source: Childe Hassam: American impressionist

“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”

Firsts Littles Waiting Emotion Alive Seeing Experience Paint Impression Colour Unseen Tubes Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music?”

Thinking Writing Years Play Happens Waiting Pieces Expression And Love Thirty Sincere Composer Thirty Years

Author:Charles Mingus

“Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.”

Ifs Writing I Can Waiting Areas Backgrounds Ritual Airports

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.”

Found Waiting Masters Elements Musician Miracle Cameras Painter Piano Canvas Predestination

Author:Alfred Stieglitz

“It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.”

Turns Waiting Knowing Doors Finals Handle Jail Breakfast Not Knowing Death Row Reprieve

Author:Howard Wilkinson

“All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.”

Needs Self Waiting Collaboration Gallery

Author:Jack White

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