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(noun) A delay. Example: "I had a very long wait at the airport security check."

14 QUOTES
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."
— Albert Camus
"At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed."
— John Muir
"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."
— Maya Angelou
"Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life."
— Oscar Wilde
"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."
— Plato
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
— Paulo Coelho
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait."
— Maya Angelou
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
— Paulo Coelho
"Opportunities don't wait for you, you have to catch it on time."
— Abel Starc
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
— Paulo Coelho
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