| former |  (On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
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| Francois Rabelais | Everything comes in time to those who can wait.
Francois Rabelais |
| Francois Rabelais | For he who can wait, everything comes in time.
Francois Rabelais |
| Frank Gorshin | The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
Frank Gorshin |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Franz Kafka | It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka |
| Franz Kafka | You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka |
| Gabriela Mistral | Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral |
| Gary McCord | He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord |
| Gary Ryan Blair | You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair |
| gather | He had just strength enough to gather some food and find a quiet clearing in the woods, where he lay down to wait until his strength should return. |
| Gene Fowler | Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Gene Fowler |
| Gene Ween | We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.
Gene Ween |
| Geoffrey Boycott | To have some idea what it's like, stand in the outside lane of a motorway, get your mate to drive his car at you at 95 mph and wait until he's 12 yards away, before you decide which way to jump.
Geoffrey Boycott |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | Time and tide wait for no man.
Geoffrey Chaucer |
| George Eliot | The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
George Eliot |
| George Herbert | Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert |
| George Konrad | You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
George Konrad |
| George Muller | If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
George Muller |
| George Phillips Bond | Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
George Phillips Bond |
