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Last updated on September 20, 2024.
Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.
Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .
Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing,
the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.
The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
What else don’t women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.
The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.
Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.
We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.
there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.
Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.
A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him.
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun's resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
We in the 25th hour,
It's now or never.
We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.
In the end, time waits for no man...
What's your plan?
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty and waits on all things.
While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see.
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
Your home is where your family is... Where someone waits for you and thinks about you.
I beg you come tonight and dine A welcome waits you and sound wine The Roederer chilly to a charm As Juno's breasts the claret warm.
He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.
The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
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.
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!
Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.
Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.
I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.
