“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
David Deida (1958) American writer
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
"With or Without You"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait, without you
With or without you, with or without you.
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
David Deida (1958) American writer
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
Jonathan Winters (1925–2013) American comedian, actor, and artist
“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
Steven Brust (1955) American fantasy and science fiction author
Source: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha (2003) https://vtmolo.com/quotes-about-ambition/ (vtmolo)]
“A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.”
W. H. Auden book The Shield of Achilles
The Shield of Achilles (1952)
Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
"The Sentinel" (1948), originally titled "Sentinel of Eternity" this is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Full text in 10 Story Fantasy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1951), p. 41 https://archive.org/details/10_Story_Fantasy_v01n01_1951-Spring_Tawrast-EXciter/page/n39. Two versions of the next to the last sentence have been widely published since at least 1951, the other being: "If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait." <br class="br">1940s