{"quotes":[{"text":"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["activity","carpe-diem","patience","proactivity","timing","waiting"],"id":1676,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"I sing to use the waiting,  My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house;  No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching,  We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang  To keep the dark away.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["darkness","love","poetry","waiting"],"id":1837,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"},{"text":"The power of waiting is gracious.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["chrisitan-life","dont-quit","endurance","faith","grace","hope","life","patient","self-love","self-motivation","spiritual","waiting","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-words"],"id":2913,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["earth","heaven","possess","reward","strive","waiting"],"id":4212,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["knowing","suffering","waiting"],"id":5901,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"What we do while we wait may be more important than what we are waiting for.","author":"Tim Hiller","tags":["wait","waiting"],"id":6663,"author_id":"Tim+Hiller"},{"text":"Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but hte future will come as it ocmes and will not be hurried.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["future","impatience","odd-thomas","patience","success","waiting"],"id":8311,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.","author":"Aryn Kyle","tags":["false","time","wait","waiting"],"id":8740,"author_id":"Aryn+Kyle"},{"text":"I couldn’t wait for success ― so I went ahead without it.","author":"Jonathan Winters","tags":["success","waiting"],"id":9777,"author_id":"Jonathan+Winters"},{"text":"Not that complicated. I think I'm in love with you, Essie. But I also think you're not ready. I shouldn't have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your speed.","author":"R.C. Lewis","tags":["love","waiting"],"id":9960,"author_id":"R.C.+Lewis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":599,"pages":60,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}