Top 49 Longer The Waiting Quotes
#2. I am here now, half alive, but alive. I am no longer waiting for the world outside to let me live, slow and sure, as I finally learn how to breathe alone.
Sarah Ann Walker
#3. The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.
Michel Martelly
#4. Create your own path and stop waiting for things to come your way. The longer you wait, the further others go.
Behdad Sami
#5. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.
Andrew James Pritchard
#6. She was no longer a shy Second Assistant Librarian. She was the Abhorsen-in-Waiting.
Garth Nix
#7. Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.
George Bernard Shaw
#8. The longer you wait, the more the jump rope becomes a big steel cable.
Susan Messing
#9. Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I'm waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I'll never know.
Marguerite Duras
#10. Presence is when you're no longer waiting for the next moment, believing that the next moment will be more fulfilling than this one.
Eckhart Tolle
#11. The task I've been given seems absurd: To wait here on earth until I no longer exist.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#12. I keep waiting for that movie moment when Reed runs out of the house, screaming for me to come back.
But it never happens.
There's no rain-filled reunion and the only moisture are the tears I can't hold back any longer.
Erin Watt
#13. Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.
John F. Kerry
#14. We cannot wait any longer to deal with the structural causes of poverty, in order to heal our society from an illness that can only lead to new crises.
Pope Francis
#15. Suddenly I could control every aspect of publishing, and it was incredibly empowering! I didn't have to sit by the phone any longer waiting for things to happen because I was the one making them happen. That's why I decided to start Amber House Books.
Teresa Medeiros
#16. Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
#17. There is so much chaos and dysfunction going on with the federal government that Dallas can't wait any longer for federal help.
Laura Miller
#18. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
#19. When you're here, an i in the Ocean, you're no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you're here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.
Jean-Pierre Weill
#20. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.
Dean Koontz
#21. The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.
Mason Cooley
#22. If you knew where your happiness came from, it gave you patience. You realized that a lot of the time, you were just waiting out a situation, and that took the pressure off; you no longer looked to every interaction to actually do something for you.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#23. The obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.
Judith Martin
#24. The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.
Bill Davidow
#25. I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses with fear.
Devon Ashley
#26. This was the environment in which I finally came to my education, the environment in which I knew I could no longer lie in bed and give up. How could I pull the blanket back over my head when I knew my teachers were waiting for me? When they were willing to work so hard, how could I not do the same?
Liz Murray
#27. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.
Greg Nickels
#28. It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett
#29. My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.
Lily Collins
#30. I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.
George Brett
#31. When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.
Paul Gilding
#32. There had been something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.
Libba Bray
#33. For the first time since our fight in Severen, I felt things were right between us. The silences no longer lay around us like holes in the road. I knew it had just been a matter of waiting patiently until the tension passed.
Patrick Rothfuss
#34. I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
Richard Brautigan
#35. He looked at her with a touch of defiance, as if waiting for an angry answer. But her answer was worse than anger: her face remained expressionless, as if the truth or falsehood of his convictions were of no concern to her any longer.
Ayn Rand
#36. Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness
they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#37. I'm living my life waiting for the man who comes for me like one did for Anna, with hungry eyes behind the wheel and rope in the trunk. I'm ready. But I don't know how much longer I can wait.
Mindy McGinnis
#38. These were not the belongings of the past prisoner he had imagined. These were a lady's things - hairpins and stockings and a glove. There were more clues waiting but William no longer felt certain he wanted to know the dark secrets of this cell.
Gwenn Wright
#39. Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.
George W. Bush
#40. I'll spend my first year on the Wall emptying chamber pots if I keep Uncle Ben waiting any longer.
George R R Martin
#41. 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
#42. The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.
John Hewson
#43. The longer they keep you waiting, the more they want to deal.
Harvey MacKay
#44. We've been around for a long time, Mr. Dowell. Longer than you or any of your stupid little friends could ever conceive. Sleeping in the shadows and waiting for the right moment. A disease you might call us. A plague. Evil. From beneath the ground, it rises as it has done many times in the past.
Jeyn Roberts
#45. The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.
Ashay Abbhi
#46. Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.
W. H. Auden
#47. There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets
the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.
Diane Ackerman
#48. Measurement is like laundry. It piles up the longer you wait to do it.
Amber Naslund
#49. A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can finally set aside their fears thanks to the new robot Drinky, machines are no longer going to enslave us. They're going to puke on our shoes.
Mike Pesca
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