Eight generations of African-Americans are still waiting to achieve their rights - compensation and restitution for the hundreds of years during which they were bought and sold on the market.
~By Cynthia McKinney ~
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
~By Joss Whedon ~
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.
~By Marian Anderson ~
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
~By Bruce Catton ~
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
I got a script sent to me at this office and I got a call from a woman - Universal's doing a snowboarding movie. I'm not in it yet, but I'm supposed to meet with the director in New York soon. I'm waiting to hear back from them.
~By Jason Mewes ~
I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see hoe great it will get!
~By Stevie Ray Vaughan ~
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
~By Don Marquis ~
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
~By John Boehner ~
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
~By William Proxmire ~
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
~By Gian Carlo Menotti ~
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
~By William Empson ~
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
~By Richard Brautigan ~
I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
~By Ken Follett ~
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
~By Sally Field ~
When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.
~By Harry Shearer ~
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
~By Joan Collins ~
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
~By Winona Ryder ~
You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.
~By Esai Morales ~
I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
~By Jet Li ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
~By Dorothee Solle ~
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
~By Steven Brust ~
We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
~By Piers Anthony ~
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
~By Garrett Fort ~
So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~By Malachy McCourt ~
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
~By Hun Sen ~
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
~By Meg Cabot ~
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Apparently tired of waiting for clear direction from Congress, the people of Puerto Rico have used the tools provided by their own local constitution to schedule a vote for Dec. 13 on the status of the island.
~By Dick Thornburgh ~
The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
~By John Hewson ~
But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.
~By John Lone ~
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
~By Louis Freeh ~
I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
~By Kate Moss ~
Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?
~By Evan Sayet ~
You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.
~By Andy Lau ~
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
~By Percy Ross ~
So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
~By Kerry King ~
Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
~By John C. Ransom ~
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
~By Alan Clark ~
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
~By Karl Rahner ~
I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
~By Luther Allison ~
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~By Barack Obama ~
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
~By Mark Steyn ~
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
~By Bill Brandt ~
I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.
~By John Hench ~
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
~By Graham Norton ~
Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
~By Gary Miller ~
All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
~By Marcia Gay Harden ~
I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
~By Michael D. Barnes ~
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
~By Dave Barry ~
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~By Elizabeth Taylor ~
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
~By Leroy Chiao ~
It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.
~By Heston Blumenthal ~
It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.
~By Compay Segundo ~
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.
~By Lance Loud ~
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.
~By Steve Waugh ~
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
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