I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave. ” “What’s it like?” He paused. “It’s. . . beautiful, really. ” “Tell me. ” And so Po described to Katsa what hid in the blackness of the cave; and outside, the world awaited them.
I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.
It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.
Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.
Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.
No one expected me. Everything awaited me.
It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles were to be brought, and where the awaited trial of the new civilization was to be made.
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. . . . Nor is this the only trouble about letters. They do not arrive often enough. A letter which has been passionately awaited should be immediately supplemented by another one, to counteract the feeling of flatness that comes upon us when the agonizing delights of anticipation have been replaced by the colder flood of fulfilment.
With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.
