Endless Waiting Quotes

#1. Lou had been a blur of red in Jo's memories of this
room, the bright spot of color in the endless waiting white.

Genevieve Valentine

#2. The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow
to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.

Charles Dickens

#3. One needs to be on guard against expecting external powers to decide when you can take yourself seriously as an artist. It can be a long wait - and lead to endless appetite.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#4. The place had filled him with a sense of wisdom hovering just out of reach, of unspeakable grace prepared and waiting just around the corner, but he'd walked himself weak down its endless blue streets and all the people who knew how to live had kept their tantalizing secret to themselves.

Richard Yates

#5. Of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Arthur Golden

#6. If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.

Tom Althouse

#7. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. Street lights kill the essence of the night sky. Stars and meteors fade away. No songs or whispers from my blackberry. I drift away to my special place.

Fidelis O. Mkparu

#9. Endless dreams are forever waiting, whereas success is, and does.

Bryant McGill

#10. If the Savior had come back to earth at the beginning of the fifth century A.D., I doubt whether he would have recognized the Christian Church as the one that claimed descent from that which he had established, so far had it gone astray.

Milton R. Hunter

#11. We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

George MacDonald

#12. Ages fourteen to eighteen, a girl needs something to kill all that time, that endless itchy waiting, every hour, every day for something - anything - to begin.

Megan Abbott

#13. Dew depends not on Parliament.

James Otis

#14. The universe with its endless possibilities is waiting for you to ask...ask for what you want.

Beth Reed

#15. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said.

J.M. Darhower

#16. The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Aristotle.

#17. Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

Tahir Shah

#18. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.

Deborah Eisenberg

#19. Her eyes shining with the light of it.
Beneath, between, beyond.
Along the endless circle.
Down the ceaseless spiral.
And waiting for her on the other side?
Just like he promised.
...
"A whole sky of different stars.

Amie Kaufman

#20. We don't have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

Arianna Huffington

#21. Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Tommy Thompson

#22. There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

Paul Washer

#23. All things that exist form an endless area of quantum energy with infinite possibilities waiting to happen.

Stephen Richards

#24. Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#25. The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life

Willard Gaylin

#26. While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Michele Bachmann

#27. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.

Joanne Fluke

#28. Ignorance is a bliss

John Green

#29. I had been hoping and waiting for some mind-blowingly fantastic, world-altering event to finally shatter the endless monotony of my public education.

Ernest Cline

#30. I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade ... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet ... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.

Marquis De Sade

#31. Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Louisa May Alcott

#32. You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Susan Mallery

#33. You need a civil society ... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters can. Places can change ... but it takes blood, sweat and tears.

Bob Maguire

#34. They stole you from me. They took you away for seven years. Your entire lifetime. A life sentence. The waiting has been endless. The watching. The planning. Now, finally, I'm almost ready. I've got a few things to take care of and then we can be reunited.

Sanjida Kay

#35. If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#36. Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.

Xavier Becerra

#37. The third person is another pair of eyes. The third person is a presentiment of God ... a way to tell the story.
It's a box for the endless music that's there between people, waiting to be played.

Ali Smith