Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lshall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORD Isaiah 40:30^31.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

-Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster
  On his innovative geodesic domes. In Time,10  Jun.

Re"  ver, c'est le bonheur; attendre, c'est la vie. To dream is happiness; to wait is life.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
' 1831 Les Feuilles d'automne, no.27,'A mes amis L.B. et S.-B.'.

Those who wait for the USSR to reject Communism must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

-Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
  Speech in Moscow,17 Sep.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamöand not make dreams your master; If you can thinköand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rewards and Fairies,'Ifö'.

Ich kann warten. I can wait.

-Liszt, Franz
When it was suggested to him that his music was being neglected. Quoted in F Lamond Memoirs (1949).

You just wait. I'll sin until I blow up!

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Under MilkWood.

Siendo el esperar sentada la forma ma¤  s muerta de la espera muerta, siendo el esperar la forma menos estimulante de muerte. To wait, seated in a chair, is the deadest form of dead anticipation, and waiting the most uninspired form of death.

-Valenzuela, Luisa
  Cambio de armas,'Ceremonias de rechazo' (translated as OtherWeapons,'Rituals of Rejection',1985).