I Waited Quotes

#1. I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others."
"And?" I asked.
"Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.

Deb Caletti

#2. She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested."

I waited.

She waited.

I raised my brows. "And?"

Her mouth curved into a smile. "You think I'm pretty, don't you.

Tosca Lee

#3. She waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

E.L. Konigsburg

#5. You hold my heart. Even when you didn't want it anymore. I waited for you since the beginning of time and no separation will ever keep us apart.

Cari Quinn

#6. The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it. The entire storm was two flakes.

Richard Brautigan

#7. When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Henry Rollins

#8. If in this lifetime,
I wont get to have you,
I'll make sure that if
I meet you in my next life
I wont have to think twice on saying that
"I waited a lifetime to say I love you...

Anjali Banerjee

#9. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

Gordon Clark

#10. I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Michael Reagan

#11. You're so secretive, Samantha. We had no idea you liked to run."My eyebrow shot up. "Well, how could you? We've been such great friends since ... " I waited a beat and gave my own forced laugh. "Oh, that's right. We're not friends.

Tijan

#12. Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#13. My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

Josh Duhamel

#14. I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

Agnes Varda

#15. Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough, my strong unexpressed joy would dwindle and dissipate inside me, like a fire subsiding ... Just this once I wanted to let it rip.

Annie Dillard

#16. I waited for my thighs and butt to uncramp. Of course, they didn't know the loosening rule. They were screaming things like *Are you crazy? Do you know we're thirty-five years old? Sit down and feed us a Twinkie!

P.C. Cast

#17. Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?"
He smiled at me. "Go to sleep."
I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?"
His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd ... do anything.

Patricia Briggs

#18. I smiled,
I waited,
I was circumspect;
O never, never, never write that I
missed life or loving.

Hilda Doolittle

#19. I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.

Jim Butcher

#20. I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

Gretchen Rubin

#21. If I waited for a proper occasion to get dressed up I'd never wear half of these clothes. Put on the clothes and you make things happen to match them. It doesn't work the other way around.

Erin Kelly

#22. I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#23. PSA40.1 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

Anonymous

#24. Two thousand, seven hundred and seventy four days. That's how long I waited and wished for you.

Emma Hart

#25. Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

Skrillex

#26. Unfortunately, all the things I've created so far in my life never would've showed up if I "waited" to feel motivated, inspired, and ready to roll.

Alexander Heyne

#27. I was holding the door for several girls in front of you, and I waited for you to catch up. When you reached me, you looked pleased, and a little surprised. Unlike the others, you didn't expect the door to be held for you by some random guy. You smiled up at me and said, 'Thank you.

Tammara Webber

#28. I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough.

Raymond Massey

#29. Writing is something I do everyday. If I waited for inspiration, I'd never get anything done.

Lawrence C. Connolly

#30. You said: "Wait for the moon with me."
I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.

Danabelle Gutierrez

#31. We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen.
Nothing did.
"This isn't good," Quen said.
I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Kim Harrison

#32. I waited, and I'm sure Elvis did too, for each Ricky Nelson record like we would a Chuck Berry record or a Fats Domino record, to see what was going on. I used to say to some of the guys that Ricky Nelson learned to sing on million selling records.

Roy Orbison

#33. I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

Laura Osnes

#34. I heard a guy tell me he liked cherries. I waited to hear if he was going to say "tomatoes", then I realized he like cherries just. That joke is ridiculous.

Mitch Hedberg

#35. Sweetheart, this is my first time, too. I waited a long time for you, for this. I couldn't imagine being with anyone else but you. This is the beginning for us, baby. This is my forever,

Aria Cole

#36. I think that I could have been take apart if the bear market continued, but I waited three years before I felt the bear market was over and I was right.

Jim Cramer

#37. 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

#38. I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#39. I waited a second. Should I?
No... but I will.

Jay Asher

#40. So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.

Charlize Theron

#41. When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.

Viswanathan Anand

#42. I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.

Sarah Dessen

#43. Sam- " After you were bitten, i knew what would happen. I waited for you to change, every night, so i could bring you back and keep you from getting hurt."
Grace- " How long did you wait?"
Sam- " I haven't stopped.

Maggie Stiefvater

#44. When I was sixteen, I saw you and when I did, I was young, romantic, and it might sound stupid but the minute I saw you, I knew I wanted to give that to you. I knew it was only you. I waited thirteen years, honey. It was worth the wait.

Kristen Ashley

#45. Well with girls I don't get no respect. I had a blind date. I waited two hours on the corner. A girl walked by. I said Are you Louise? She said, Are you Rodney? I said, Yeah. She said, I'm not Louise.

Rodney Dangerfield

#46. I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail.

K.F. Breene

#47. I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

Farrah Abraham

#48. I waited for that day, for that one thing to complete me. To feel someone's heartbeat inside my chest and know that it was reciprocated. To find the one who belonged to me and could be the one to make me whole.

Shelly Crane

#49. So then I bid him farewell and walked down the side of the pool leading to the outside entrance where I waited for soph to come down so we could walk home together

Adrian Hadzic

#50. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

Shelley Fabares

#51. I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.

Minnie Driver

#52. I waited a beat before saying, "So, really, I'm not the craziest girl you've ever dated. That's a relief." "Your grasp of the weight of this situation is amazing," he retorted. I shrugged. "I'm just saying.

Molly Harper

#53. The waste of intelligence. A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women's intellectual energies is its own enemy and doesn't realize it. I waited in silence

Elena Ferrante

#54. I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.

Shannon L. Alder

#55. I am on the power toothbrush train and I'm asking people to try to using an Oral B power toothbrush. I just started using one and I cannot believe that I waited this long to use a power toothbrush. It's so much easier than using a manual toothbrush.

Sherri Shepherd

#56. I got on the elevator without giving him the chance to kiss me. We stood across from each other, two sad people in a situation that couldn't be fixed. I waited for the door to slide shut between us.

Stephanie Lehmann

#57. I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Uzo Aduba

#58. What gets me is, I waited in line for an hour to do this. I could have experienced essentially the same level of enjoyment merely by sticking my finger down my throat.

Dave Barry

#59. I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

George Bernard Shaw

#60. I want my happiness! ... Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#61. I waited for my body to respond to her nearness. Hoping that my heart would beat wildly or that wonderful tingling feeling would begin to surge from my groin. But my insides were quiet, almost ... bored.

Karen Ann Hopkins

#62. I waited to be told what was good about me. [...] All that time I had spent readying myself, the articles that taught me life was really just a waiting room until someone noticed you- the boys had spent that time becoming themselves.

Emma Cline

#63. If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

Anne Tyler

#64. I waited tables in New York, and when you're in that line of work, you often have a horrible boss.

Charlie Day

#65. I rolled the ball of muffin and I waited and after my mother said, "That you should really take a multivitamin," my father threw up his hands in disgust, and I was positive I had no family at all, certain it was not my mother but the solar wind that carried me into the universe.

Alison Espach

#66. No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.

Jane Lynch

#67. I waited a century to marry you miss swan

Stephenie Meyer

#68. I was an idle king and my chariot dawdled; I waited for the sea but it never came.

Albert Camus

#69. If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

Barry Mann

#70. Why didn't you come back?" he sobbed.
"I waited and waited for you, like I said I would, but you never came back! Why? Why didn't you come back? I love you I love you I love you.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#71. Sure, I watched the workmen come and lower large pieces of rotten sheetrock and lift new clean panels on a pulley
from that same window months ago, and I could have written then, but I must have sensed her coming, the smoker, so I waited.

Kristen Henderson

#72. I was still waiting for him to 'get' that. the longer I waited, the angrier I got. But most of all, the sadder I got.

Nicole Williams

#73. Someone once asked me ... whether I waited for inspiration. My answer was: "Every day!"

Aaron Copland

#74. I waited for you. All these years I watched and waited, knowing, somehow, that what we would have would be different. That it would be worth the lonely nights and the fears that I had missed you somewhere.

Lora Leigh

#75. I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.

Sylvia Plath

#76. And in the midst of this, i waited for something to happen. Something must happen, I felt sure. It can't end like this.

Haruki Murakami

#77. I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

Jenny Slate

#78. But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came. My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. (Job)

Laura Wiess

#79. I closed my eyes and prayed for divine intervention.
I waited a beat and nothing happened.
Guess God was busy with war and famine and the like.

Kristen Ashley

#80. I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander," he whispered in her ear. "And you were worth every second of it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#81. When my grandchildren ask me what I did in the '42 movement [Quit India Movement] I say - "I waited for it.

R.P. Noronha

#82. I waited for my first kiss.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#83. I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

Claude Monet

#84. I'm not afraid of you. And to demonstrate that point, I leaned forward and kissed like he'd kissed me in the drawing room, careful not to spill my drink. Me heart pounded in my chest as I waited for him to respond, hoping he wouldn't pull away and declare everything that had happened a mistake.

Aimee Carter

#85. I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over.

Christina Bartolomeo

#86. I don't work all the time. That's why I waited to have children until I was ready for that. I try to organise my time according to them because they need me. I don't want to put my work first anymore because it's not as important as my children.

Monica Bellucci

#87. It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.

John Mole

#88. Goddamn it. Wait for me, Eva. I waited my whole life for you.

Sylvia Day

#89. I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

Kelly Batten

#90. If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.

Anna Quindlen

#91. I waited a long time," I whispered.
"For what?" he asked.
"For you

Kristen Ashley

#92. I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Ellen Glasgow

#93. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage

#94. I blew out the flame, and when my breath hit his face, his eyes closed. I waited for them to reopen, but they didn't.

Raziel Reid

#95. I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

Toni Morrison

#96. I waited for him to pick up the thread again - and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.

Donna Tartt

#97. And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot.

Sam Pink

#98. When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

Jon Ronson

#99. I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Dick Gregory

#100. My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

Melissa Rauch