#wait

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#friends #friendship #life-lessons #waiting #death

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#home #i #more #much #phone

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#also #applies #apt #breathless #clearly

You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. ↗

— Chuck D.

#anyway #being #bought #computers #difference

Columbia tried to put me behind other groups, so I didn't wanna wait, they let me out of the contract and I'm glad they did. ↗

— DMX

#columbia #contract #did #glad #groups

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard. ↗

— Chili Davis

#away #bat #certain #certain things #counts

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#i #new #new york #poor #very

Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack #before #begins #carving #face

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#thought #wait #without #you

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. ↗