- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Awaiting Quotes
What people wait on, and how they wait.
One quote points to jobs bills passed by the House that were still stalled in the Senate, a bipartisan effort held up by process — related reading on our Action quotes page. Another recalls turning to stand-up comedy while awaiting sentencing on a judge's suggestion.
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- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're expanding the brand. Bojana and I are indeed awaiting our second child. We're very excited.
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I had so many people in my family die. In my mind, heaven was as physical a place as home or school, and I knew that everyone I loved was together, enormously happy, and watching over me and awaiting my coming to this extraordinary place.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my mom was editor for the National Council of Catholic Women, but my parents were simply awaiting my birth before moving back to their roots in Rhode Island to raise their family.
- Counties
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
- Exhaust
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
While awaiting deportation proceedings, my parents remained in detention near Boston, so I could visit them. They would have liked to fight deportation, but without a lawyer and an immigration system that rarely gives judges the discretion to allow families to stay together, they never had a chance.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020