Top 100 Always Waiting Quotes
#1. I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Mike Colter
#2. You see, there weren't these magazines like 'Heat' in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.
Joanna Lumley
#3. Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.
Mark Lawrence
#4. Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.
Carew Papritz
#5. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do. Padmasree
Sheryl Sandberg
#6. That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
Ray Bradbury
#7. Everyone's always waiting for someone to falter.
Glenn Ficarra
#8. I think that comic followers are always waiting for key iconic moments.
Gale Anne Hurd
#9. Sufre mas el que espera siempre
que aquel que nunca espero a nadie?
Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?
Pablo Neruda
#10. It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.
Jodi Picoult
#11. The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.
Mason Cooley
#12. You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
George Jones
#13. Dwayne is right: blood does call to blood. I was always waiting for hers to beckon to mine, but I never considered that it would be my blood that would call upon hers.
Tayari Jones
#14. Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
Joel Edgerton
#15. Those who stand at the threshold of life always waiting for the right time to change are like the man who stands at the bank of a river waiting for the water to pass so he can cross on dry land.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#16. For some reason, being on time in this industry can be a lost art form, especially for actors! It's important to remember that other people are always waiting for you on set, and it's really unfair to make them wait.
Becca Tobin
#17. When I am searching for something, it is always waiting for me with open arms.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Know that Jesus is always waiting for you to accept His love.
George Calleja
#20. The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
Anne Lamott
#21. If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.
Louie Giglio
#22. Africa was always waiting, a substrate for the white man's will, a backdrop for his activities...I was primed to see a white man, a nobody in his own country, who thought, as usual, that the salvation of Africa was up to him.
Teju Cole
#23. Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude.
Michel Faber
#24. Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Sheryl Sandberg
#25. I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
Amelia Warner
#26. Most of people says that we start work from coming Monday , If You Want to do, Don't wait for Right Monday, Just do it Now, otherwise you will always waiting for right Monday. Don't waste time utilize it.
Umair Gurmani
#27. When I leave my own house, there's always a part of me that stays behind, waiting for me to get back. That's what makes it my home - that feeling that a part of me is always waiting for me there.
David Levithan
#28. As an actor I am always waiting for my luck to run out.
Tom Hanks
#29. Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
Grimes
#30. They are always waiting, the people of the Undersea. They spend all their lives waiting for their lives to begin. Miranda
Emily St. John Mandel
#31. I never realized Death was so fleet of foot.'
'The fleetest. Always dancing in the shadows.'
'Always waiting for his next partner?'
'Dancing through a long list until he finds the perfect one.
Anne Mallory
#32. ...and I was reminded....of the everday boredom of a life in espionage. One is always waiting for someone who does not show up,for something that does not happen.
Charles McCarry
#33. In the arts, people are always waiting for someone or some movement to "fulfill her/its/his promise." Then, half-a-dozen or a dozen years on, others begin to realize that, really, something extraordinary was actually happening.
Samuel R. Delany
#34. I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
Lance Burton
#35. There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.
Zadie Smith
#36. Friendships were tricky things, especially friendships as old as theirs was. Nudity was nothing more than a collection of hard-earned scars and marks. Love was a given, uncomplicated by sex or vows, but honesty was always waiting there, ready to capsize the steady boat.
Emma Straub
#37. You must not waste your one day here. When the sun shines, you let it shine on you. Snow is always waiting.
Gayle Forman
#38. As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."
Benjamin Stone
#39. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.
Jodee Blanco
#40. We thought we'd seen it all. The real horror of war is always waiting for you at home. It's waiting, I tell you. We were so damned happy when we got back. We'd made it. We survived. But it's always waiting. Waiting. You let down your guard. And there it is. You can't ever let up. Give up.
James Anderson
#41. Trust the earth and believe that something amazing is always waiting just for you. So be awesome!
Debasish Mridha
#42. We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [ ... ] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.
Paul Arden
#43. Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?
Andrei Platonov
#44. I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.
Teri Polo
#45. I don't mean my life sucks. It just feels like I'm always waiting, and I don't want to do that anymore.
Noelle Adams
#46. Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.
Gillian Flynn
#47. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen
A.A. Milne
#48. reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of
Michel Faber
#49. We are not enjoying today; we are always waiting for tomorrow.
Debasish Mridha
#50. Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke
Michael Morpurgo
#51. I waited for you."
"But it's a race. Why did you wait for me?"
"I always wait for you. I'm always waiting for you.
Brodi Ashton
#52. You're never where you want to be. There's always waiting. There's always some new project that's coming down the road - some new thing you're working on, some creative direction you're wanting to explore.
Laura Allen
#53. Bless all useful objects,
the spoons made of bone,
the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
the typewriter that is my church
with an altar of keys always waiting.
Anne Sexton
#54. I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.
Patricia A. McKillip
#55. Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down
revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.
Erica Jong
#56. The immortal silence is there always waiting for you and that spirit is deathless and courageous. Remember, many have trod the path that you are walking on and they succeeded. They were no better than you, no wiser.
Frederick Lenz
#57. That was the problem with training to be a spy and developing your senses to the point that I had. Now, I was constantly alert
even when I wanted to relax, I couldn't. I was always waiting for someone to jump out and attack me.
Embee
#58. She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.
D.H. Lawrence
#59. There's not a girl who's more hopeful than a slut, more optimistic.She may give in but she doesn't give up.She keeps looking, she keeps hoping, she's always waiting for that someone who will say it: i love you too.
Diana Joseph
#60. Don't waste your entire life always waiting for the end of the day, for the weekend, for summer, for things to
change, for something better. Enjoy as much of the present as you can. Now is happening. Now is good. Now belongs to you.
Emm Roy
#61. Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
Pema Chodron
#62. Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.
Henri Nouwen
#63. At first, I thought the ring might be a fake, a lie. But it was real to me. When I was always waiting for you, while my heart was breaking, and as I was happy, the ring became real to me because of you.
Ji-Eun Song
#64. We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.
Na
#65. When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Ritchie Blackmore
#66. I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Ibrahim shook his head. "Women. You are enigmas."
"No, we're just always waiting for men to say the proper thing. Now and then you do. And upon such occasion, we rejoice.
Leanna Renee Hieber
#68. Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.
Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.
And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line.
Keith Hammond
#69. That's the thing about introverts - we are always waiting to be invited to speak up about what matters to us. If the invitation comes too soon, we'll probably avoid the question, deflecting the focus to the other person. We might want to come closer, but we're not warmed up yet. We're
Michaela Chung
#70. I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're there and you're doing the scene and you're always sort of like, "OK, are they going to cut it? How far are we taking this, or are they going to cold cut?"
Ashton Kutcher
#71. He is always there for her,always waiting. The most constant companion anyone could pray for. One of these days she will return to him. She will feel that desire again, that need beyond human comprehension, and they will be together forever.
Carrie Ryan
#72. People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.
Coretta Scott King
#73. ( ... ) maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing.
Kate Ellison
#74. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.
Michael Morpurgo
#75. There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
Ann Brashares
#76. The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#78. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#79. I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.
Katy Perry
#80. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
Catherynne M Valente
#81. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)
Eva Charles
#82. (1) Never give anything away for nothing.
(2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait).
(3) Always take everything back if you possibly can.
William S. Burroughs
#83. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!
Mikhail Lermontov
#84. I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.
Arvind Ethan David
#85. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett
#86. When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake.
James Marsters
#87. Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel Beckett
#88. everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay.
AVA.
#89. I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.
Emilia Fox
#90. I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't die," He says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.
Courtney Summers
#91. the shadows may come and engulf your world, but if you look hard enough you'll always see that spark in the abyss leading you back to the light and the next adventure waiting to be had
B.B. Taylor
#92. One always needs an alternate plan, a back door, a saddled pony waiting in the alley for a quick escape, perhaps a friend to hold it, perhaps not." The
Thelma Adams
#93. We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have ... the earth and nature.
Dave Davies
#94. I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
Donnie Yen
#95. Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
Jason Goodman
#96. You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.
Franny Billingsley
#97. Sometimes the grief was nearby, waiting, just barely held back, and I could ignore it for a while. But at other times it was like a cup that was always full and kept spilling over.
Lydia Davis
#98. A dream is not needing anything. If it is a good one, it is waiting peaceably for ever until it is released and allowed to do its job. If it is a bad one, it is always fighting to get out.
Roald Dahl
#99. I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
Judi Dench
#100. I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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