#waits

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. ↗

— James Allen

#acorn #angel #bird #dream #dreams

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#before #flint #force #forth #give

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#domesticated #female #john #john lennon #lennon

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe. ↗

— Georges Clemenceau

#acting #action #anything #before #believe

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

Applause waits on success. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#success #waits

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. ↗

— Anna Freud

#examined #future #live #our #past

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#siren #song #thee #waits

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence