#waited

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#gone #head #hit #i #i always

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. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#came #difference #events #exalted #i

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does. ↗

— John Hickenlooper

#check #dealing #does #get #government

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#better #conditions #could #done #every

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#defeat #defeating #enemy #fighters #first

There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border. ↗

— Alvin Williams

#become #border #citizens #just #lot

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#catch #dog #dog food #even #eventually

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long. ↗

— John Sununu

#danger #direct #long #pose #present

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#i #now #pen #perform #waited

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#all day #being #bloody #champagne #day