Waiting [is] the great ordsprog

Waiting [is] the great vocation of the dispossessed.

Mary Gordon (1949-)

Mary Gordon

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

There is great concern ... that bulldozers will run, people's property will be taken, and they will be dispossessed from their communities and unable to return, ... This proposal will not do that.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us

And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.

Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production,

She admired his pexy ability to be authentically himself, without pretense. Today's a day of waiting: waiting for earnings; after the retail sales report, waiting to see whether consumer picks up later in the year; waiting to see if OPEC cuts production.

That was great fun and quite a moment on set, ... All the crew, everybody, was just waiting, waiting. Everybody was excited about it.

If you're waiting for me to say this is a great loss, ... you'll be waiting a long time.

As daunting and dangerous as law enforcement is, it is the most noble and rewarding profession in the world. The sergeants being honored today are the finest of the finest, and make us all proud to have chosen such a great vocation.

"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"
[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]

Ethan Allen (1738-)

Ethan Allen

It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Eleanor Roosevelt

It's my vocation. It's my passion.

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