#waiting

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#far #far less #how #less #odd

I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed. ↗

— Richard Jewell

#constantly #felt #followed #hunted #i

It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#book #come #defensive #find #first

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something. ↗

— John Lone

#felt #i #important #invitation #look

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! ↗

— Anna Neagle

#big #big things #growing #horizons #instead

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

So far I'm still standing on 'Sons of Anarchy' but all the rest of the people on the show have me in their crosshairs so I'm waiting for the bullet in the head. ↗

— Mitch Pileggi

#bullet #far #head #i #me

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes. ↗

— Percy Ross

#genies #grant #waiting #wishes #world

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#booster #flying #going #happen #i