The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
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Related You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. CRAIG BRUCE If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait... ROBERT KIYOSAKI if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. Wha... ROD DREHER "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physicia... ETHAN ALLEN "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physici... ETHAN ALLEN But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. ANNA NEAGLE "Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his phy... ETHAN ALLEN A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring. SARA TEASDALE A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring SARA TEASDALE Don't rush into love. You'll find the person meant for you when you least expect it. FRANZIE GUBATINA I might have to wait, I'll never give up I guess it's half timing and the other half's luck MICHEAL BUBBLE You have to give it a loveshot somehow ABDUL'RAUF HASHMI Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait... HENRI NOUWEN Babies have millions of brain cells. They are like light bulbs waiting to be turned on. Don't wa... TONY BUZAN In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set... COLIN FIRTH Death will be my only peace, many of us await it with a candle in the window. CANDICE CAIN The World is waiting for you, what are you waiting for? SOTONYE ANGA Basically if you don't have to wait and your users don't have to wait, that's important. Turnaround ... CAREY NACHENBERG If fans are waiting for an offensive explosion, ... they might have to wait awhile. SCOTT PODSEDNIK The advantage of this is that you don't have to wait for people to get really sick or before they go... DAVID AYARES There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait. SUSAN MINOT I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear... BARRY MANN There's a very curious and - and almost sadistic lust for blood that overcomes the concert liste... GLENN GOULD It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. JEAN GIRAUDOUX Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of hav... MEGHAN DAUM The No. 1 point of this program is that any waiting that has to happen is safe for those patients wh... JANIE SCHUMAKER I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to ... BARRY MANN All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the... KAMAND KOJOURI The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting ... MOHNISH PABRAI Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I... IAN MCKELLEN Make yourself solely responsible for resolving problems with other people. If you wait for the other... VIKRANT PARSAI If what you are waiting for is taking too long, stop waiting, go for it SOTONYE ANGA Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it tha... SHANNON L. ALDER I'll be here waiting, till there's nothing left to wait for. MONIKA JOANNA ORAWIEC If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It... BECCA TOBIN I couldn't believe it. We have only been waiting just a couple of months and some people wait years. BRANDY OAKS I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I don't sit around waiting for passion to strike me. I keep working steadily, because I believe it i... ELIZABETH GILBERT If you will wait for perfect moment,nothing can be achieved. Stop waiting for perfect moment,go for ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The big shopping days are shifting later and later in the purchase cycle. Consumers are waiting for ... EDWARD FOX I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told m... MARCO RUBIO You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing... GARY RYAN BLAIR The market is quite stable. I'm waiting for buying opportunities but I fear I have to wait longer. ANDREAS GARTNER Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come a... CHLOE M. GOODEN Waiting so long... for 0 result? DEYTH BANGER "So many people are waiting for their happiness to come. It's not here yet, but they are waiting. It... MAHARAJI A juror waiting to be called for jury duty could bring in a laptop, or if you're in City Hall waitin... KRIS SIGFRIDSON I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha... DYLAN MORAN If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never a... MARGARET ATWOOD You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it. CHLOE THURLOW Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without... URSULA K. LEGUIN Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the... BARACK OBAMA Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year t... GEORGE CARLIN Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are... JAMES BALDWIN Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter) SUZE ROTOLO Waiting for you is as delightful as waiting for sunset. KAMAND KOJOURI And wait; surely we are waiting also. QURAN Possess your soul in patience - you will see! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government. DUONG VAN MINH There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and ... TAYLOR SWIFT As far as waiting or going, you can't wait on the ground for something else to happen. It looks like... FRANK CULBERTSON If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very ... WENTWORTH MILLER Waiting are they? Well let'em wait! GENERAL MAD ANTHONY WAYNE WHEN TOLD BY HIS DOCTORS THE ANGELS WERE WAITING FOR HIM. The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it,... BENJAMIN WALKER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer... ... Silence doesn't make it... bet... DEYTH BANGER Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting. CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Do not wait for right moment.Right moment is like a mirage. Start whenever opportunity knocks the do... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they'... BRIAN MAY Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary ... HILARY DUFF Because now I know what I have been waiting for. I know exactly why the other processes didn't work.... NIA VARDALOS No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv... BEN ELTON Who did not love with his whole being and did not wait whole life for the one he loves, does not kno... MARIANA FULGER Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will a... AVIJEET DAS You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiti... JIM SULLIVAN There is a waiting list, but for those who qualify it will pay for their oral health services. TERRI CLARK Your past is waiting for you to dwell back.
Your future is waiting with arms wide open
and
You are d... ARSLAN AHMAD There is a cure for everything, remember that, I'm just waiting on you, to create it. MICHAEL MCGROARTY I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet... LOUIS L'AMOUR I had always thought about running for high political office, and I was kind of waiting for the star... MATT CARTWRIGHT You never see a resident waiting for an escort. RHONDA ALLEN I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. DAVID MITCHELL Everyone is waiting for Wednesday, and it looks like the futures market bears have used the wait-and... GABRIEL JAFET Nothing is hard like waiting around for something you
know might never happen; but its harder to
giv... GUNDO MULAUDZI I believe that we will succeed in forming the national unity government the people are waiting for. ADNAN PACHACHI The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You DOROTHY BRYANT I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go ... JOYCE MEYER I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. ROBERT BROWNING And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last jud... BRIAN MOORE Sabrina: “But you don’t believe in marriage.” Linus: “Yes, I do. It’s why I’v... SAMUEL TAYLOR Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape... MARYSE HOLDER The great thing about life is you never know what's waiting around the corner, ... You have to be re... DON PERKINS I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait ... T.S. ELIOT Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've ... BARACK OBAMA Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care syst... TOM HARKIN Is time the only thing you are waiting for? LOESJE This is what we've all been hoping and waiting for. This breaks the record for most distant explosio... DONALD LAMB Those dark shadowed sparkling eyes were waiting for a sigh
Wait lasted but soon spark in those eyes ... AISHWARYA YELWANDE The first exchange in 27 years, I think that's a wonderful thing for the SEC. For us, it's everythin... GARY KATZ
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