#waited

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#away #decided #diamonds #glen #gray

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

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#along #cleaning #deciding #exam #failed

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. ↗

— Robert Brault

#count #day #lost #only #over

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children. ↗

— Joan Lunden

#children #even #five #get #get married

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#air force #around #became #bill #bill clinton

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#difference #failure #had #i #made

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come. ↗

— Marc Newson

#come #i #made #pepper #salt

So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#anymore #bit #career #did #down

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#never #perfection #waited #word #would