quotes about waiting for him

Someone might say of me that I have only made a bouquet of other people's flowers here, having supplied nothing of my own but the thread to bind them. ~Michel de Montaigne Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage. ~Gloria Steinem



Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. ~George Bernard Shaw



All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull



A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. ~Michael Garrett Marino



Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. ~Author Unknown



I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making. ~Franklin Knight Lane



Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw



There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. ~Mary Montagu



If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Cicero



Short A: Of course, that's what they're here for.



I tell my child, if I seem obsessed to always know where you've been, it is because my DNA will be found at the scene. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. ~Ronald Reagan



Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~Benjamin Disraeli



It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XIII "Another View of Hester"



The greater part of my official time is spent on investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn, and each stationary. ~An English Lord Chief Justice, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy



Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations



Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnameable. ~Francis Ponge



The shortest distance between two points is under construction. ~Noelie Altito



Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. ~S.A. Sachs