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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.

Thomas A. Edison

Everything Who Him He While

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love Men Health Food

Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

Success Applause

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

Dinner Never Fortune He

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Man Destiny Free Well

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

Viktor E. Frankl

Life Work Man Responsibility

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Good Great Never Will

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Vengeance Swift Wrongs

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I certainly think of him that way, but I also know him as a terrific actor. You know, that persona that he puts on when he's doing his music comes from being an actor, figuring out a persona.

Music You People Great

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Men End Know See

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He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

River Living Run Like

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

Dreams Achievement Time Soul

There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Long City Talent Beach

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

Unexpected True Results System

I can't do that wonderful thing that Tom Waits and Bob Dylan do - to do imagery. I'm not good at that. I just write from the heart.

Good Heart Wonderful Just

I rejected most of the folk I was exposed to in the Seventies. I came around later to Tom Waits, some parts of Jim Croce, and a lot of Cat Stevens.

Some Cat Seventies Folk

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Someone Free Slave Who

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics History Mother Baby

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

Work Future Past Live

I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.

World Never Influence Perfect

Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.

People Like Influences Would

The first time I heard Tom Waits, it was like everything just flipped. It was just this fascination with him. My cousin showed me 'Small Change,' and I just couldn't get over that this was a white guy singing.

Change Me Time Singing

I've been a total Tom Waits dork for a long, long time.

Time Long Long Time Been

One of my biggest influences of all time would be somebody like Tom Waits. David Bowie is another huge influence. I'm also a big fan of St. Vincent and Leslie Feist.

Time Influence Like Big

In Eastern Europe, the past is not only always hovering over the present, it is not even passed. It waits, like some malevolent caged beast, ready at any moment to escape and bring back all the horrors.

Moment Past Back Beast

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