#wait

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #wait




I spent most of the '60s, when I was starting to try to write novels, living and working in Greece and Turkey. These are countries where the ancient past is interfused with the daily present, and I remember being struck with wonder at the constant sense of continuity and connection, the reminders that lie in wait for you at every turn.


Barry Unsworth


#being #connection #constant #continuity #countries

Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.


Alvar N. C. de Vaca


#agreed #certain #death #did #god

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!


Stevie Ray Vaughan


#get #great #how #i #just

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.


Elizabeth Warren


#elementary school #graduated #i #married #me

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.


Andrzej Wajda


#collapse #culture #economy #expected #full

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.


Sam Waterston


#becoming #cab #cab driver #did #driver

I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.


Steve Waugh


#even #even worse #i #like #lost

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.


Eberhard Weber


#audience #better #decline #finish #notices

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.


Weegee


#capture #film #moment #only #people

It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.


Caspar Weinberger


#america #being #country #demonstrate #did