The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.