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I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
Andrew Wyeth
Winter
,
You
,
Feel
,
Landscape
,
Fall
,
Show
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
Dreams
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Time
,
Bird
,
Achievement
,
Soul
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
Marian Anderson
Waiting
,
You
,
Know
,
Turn
,
Hearts
,
Ready
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Love
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Food
,
Health
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Power
,
Men
,
Live
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
Viktor E. Frankl
Life
,
Work
,
Man
,
Responsibility
,
Never
On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
Alexander Pope
Vengeance
,
Swift
,
Wrongs
In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
Rain
,
Water
,
Tree
,
Me
,
Fishing
,
Eagle
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Mother
,
Politics
,
History
,
Baby
,
Know
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
Conor Oberst
Sad
,
Spring
,
Green
,
Sleep
,
Sadness
,
Say
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
Someone
,
Free
,
Slave
,
Him
,
Come
,
Who
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
Tom Robbins
Unexpected
,
True
,
Results
,
System
,
Order
The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.
Ben Folds
Late
,
Never
,
Clock
,
Growing Old
,
Growing
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison
Everything
,
Him
,
He
,
Who
,
While
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
Science
,
Knowledge
,
Ride
,
Forget
,
Days
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
Hozier
People
,
Like
,
Huge
,
Would
,
Influences
What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.
Steve Vai
Music
,
Look
,
Simplicity
,
Sincerity
,
Want
Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin
Success
,
Applause
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
Dinner
,
Never
,
Fortune
,
He
,
Sure
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
Man
,
Destiny
,
Free
,
Him
,
Well
,
Alike
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
Howard Thurman
Life
,
Yourself
,
You
,
True
,
Genuine
,
Will
The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
Walter Savage Landor
Song
,
Singing
,
Siren
,
Thee
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace
River
,
Run
,
Living
,
Like
,
Out
,
He
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles
Men
,
End
,
Know
,
See
,
Seeing
,
Things
The government simply waits for farmers to grow their crops - nine months of growing grapes, then two to three weeks of drying them in the sun. Then it takes away a part of that crop and stores it in warehouses around California.
David Fahrenthold
Sun
,
Government
,
Grow
,
Three
,
Farmers
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson
Good
,
Great
,
Never
,
Will
,
Anything
,
He
There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.
Ice Cube
Beach
,
City
,
Talent
,
Long
,
Back
,
Pretty
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