To avoid doing anything, wait for the right circumstances.
Do not wait for a reason to be happy.
Oblivion waits without beckoning or threatening.
Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.
Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.
The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.