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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest” - 1895

“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.” Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” - 1905

“moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.” Neil Gaiman, “Neverwhere” - 1996

“you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.” Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” - 1962

“The night is long that never finds the day.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may always expect the most efficient service.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“But in every sickness there are many days when the doctor can do nothing but wait.” Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet” - 1929

“At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“the idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a Reserved sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I’d never see her again.” Haruki Murakami, “South of the Border, West of the Sun” - 1992

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.” Haruki Murakami, “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - 2007

“What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she not saved from all the plague of young men who were not worthy of her?” George MacDonald, “At the Back of the North Wind” - 1871

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