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Waiting Quotes - Page 120

Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

Anne Lamott (2011). “Crooked Little Heart: A Novel”, p.233, Anchor

He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

Alasdair MacIntyre (1981). “After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

They also swear who only stand and wait.

Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”