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Wednesday, June 26th, 2024
the Week of Proper 7 / Ordinary 12
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Quotations regarding 'Waiting'

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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff, Russian Comedia (1951-  )
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
Dorothee Solle, German Theologian (1929-2003)
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld, American Actress (1996-  )
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
Mark Steyn, Canadian Writer
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
Sharon Stone, American Actress (1958-  )
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard, English Dramatist (1937-  )
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
Sherry Stringfield, American Actress (1967-  )
You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.
Jim Sullivan, English Musician (1941-  )
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
Matthew Sweet, American Musician (1964-  )
I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
Taylor Swift, American Musician (1989-  )
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham, English Scientist (1624-1689)
Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
Wanda Sykes, American Comedian (1964-  )
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
Wislawa Szymborska, Polish Poet (1923-  )
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
Booth Tarkington, American Novelist (1869-1946)
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth Taylor, English Actress (1932-2011)
A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale, American Author (1884-1933)
No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.
Joe Theismann, American Athlete (1949-  )
Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.
Dick Thornburgh, American Politician (1932-  )
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Historian (1876-1962)
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Anne Tyler, American Novelist (1941-  )
 
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