Top 32 Bide Your Time Quotes
#1. And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
Margaret Mitchell
#2. Acting careers are very interesting things. They come with a lot of ups and downs. You just have to ride the waves and bide your time during the lulls, and enjoy the high times when they're there.
Pablo Schreiber
#3. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue dreams and goals. Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don't bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.
Kim Holden
#4. Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving. We had to be.
Margaret Mitchell
#5. Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.
Linda Hirshman
#6. I've learned when to speak out. You do have to learn when to bide your time and when to speak out, and I don't always get it right.
Cherie Blair
#7. There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.
Jeaniene Frost
#9. We [ the Desaparecidos ] are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.
Conor Oberst
#10. My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
Albert Einstein
#11. Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
Jean Monnet
#12. Being a kid is all about learning to bide time, proving just how unnatural it is to delay gratification.
Kelly Corrigan
#13. The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.
Sam Altman
#14. When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.
Katherine Mansfield
#15. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged animal alert for the slightest opening. In time, it will have its way; the dam, like the ancient cliffs, will be carried away piecemeal in the currents.
Wendell Berry
#16. Many people have stopped growing. When you stop growing, you stop living. Many have stopped living and now just bide their time before it becomes official.
Tony Curl
#17. Jenny felt that her education was merely a polite way to bide time, as if she were really a cow, being prepared only for the insertion of the device for artificial insemination. Her
John Irving
#18. When the sun rises and shines,
Not all the lotus buds in the lakes and ponds bloom,
Only those that are ready, do.
The rest have to bide their time,
But all are destined to bloom,
All have to fulfill that destiny.
There is no need to despair.
Sathya Sai Baba
#19. Maybe that's why monsters fade. Maybe it's not about what the mortals believe. Maybe it's because you give up on yourself.
Rick Riordan
#20. I, on the other hand, have no faith that your mission - whatever it is - can succeed. I'm content to bide my time here in this tiny, damp, worm-infested hovel and wait for the world to end. Cheers.
Gillian Bronte Adams
#21. Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.
David Geffen
#22. Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait
not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh,
Marilynne Robinson
#25. I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
Olivia Thirlby
#27. If you are a good student of life, wisdom becomes your rain, falling heavily on your mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
Deng Xiaoping
#29. If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#30. In my head, every voice corresponds with a woman, a time of life, a concern, a mood, or even the kind of wash that's going to be hung out that day.
Kamel Daoud
#31. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon
Jaeda DeWalt
#32. We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl.
Libbie Hawker