Man Who Waits Quotes

#1. The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.

Leonard Peikoff

#2. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.

Georges Clemenceau

#3. Underneath the Triple Tree there is a man who waits for me and should I go or should I stay my fate's the same either way.

C.K. Walker

#4. Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.

Jules Renard

#5. Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

Rachel Vincent

#6. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Aeschylus

#7. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.

Greg Iles

#8. A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.

Wendell Berry

#9. I settle for a radio station that's currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.

Mark Capell

#10. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.

Lauren Oliver

#11. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#12. Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Abba Eban

#13. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

John Masefield

#14. Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Lauren Oliver

#15. Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#16. God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him.

Oswald Chambers

#17. O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.

John L. Bates

#18. A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

#19. Love doesn't come with any random man coming in your apartment. It comes with the right person at the right time."
"Geez. You sound like a grandma. What are you going to say next? True love waits?

Shyrill Silversong

#20. He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Owen Feltham

#21. Ah, man, if I could ever hook up with Tom Waits, I'd be the happiest camper in Yellowstone, alright? That's the one guy.

Al Jourgensen

#22. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Tom Waits

#23. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

Viktor E. Frankl

#24. When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Max Greenfield

#25. Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

Markus Zusak

#26. I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Tom Waits

#27. Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.

Walt Whitman

#28. Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

George S. Clason

#29. We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose."
"Is that a lie?"
"It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

Sheri S. Tepper

#30. A man seldom thinks of marrying when he meets his ideal woman; he waits until he gets the marrying fever and then idealizes the first woman he happens to meet.

Helen Rowland

#31. Skulduggery," the tall man said eventually, his voice deep and resonant, "trouble follows in your wake, doesn't it?"
"I wouldn't say follows," Skulduggery answered. "It more kind of sits around and waits for me to get there.

Derek Landy

#32. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare

#33. We in the 25th hour,
It's now or never.
We gotta get it 'fore it's gone forever.
In the end, time waits for no man ...
What's your plan?

Reks

#34. God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.

Rabindranath Tagore

#35. Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Nelson Mandela

#36. Time and tide waits for no man, to capture time, treasure every moment in your life and let the time that slowly slips away memorable and worthy to be kept as sweet memories

M.O. Kenyan

#37. Death waits for us all. Nothing's forever. Life's about making the best of what you find along the way. A man who's not content with what he's got, well, more than likely he won't be content with what he hasn't.

Joe Abercrombie

#38. Even a thirsty man will not drink at the river where a crocodile waits.

Timothy G. Bax

#39. No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

H.L. Mencken

#40. What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.

Julia Glass

#41. I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

Florence Welch

#42. Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Samuel Johnson

#43. Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Alfred Polgar

#44. I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

Markus Zusak

#45. Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Mark Twain

#46. Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

Tom Waits

#47. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.

Rita Rudner

#48. The star waits for the boy, for the man. See the name, read the name, say the name and its ice burns through the fire. One for the seer, two for the siren, three for the soldier. Dare the storm, children of the gods, and take them home." Sasha

Nora Roberts

#49. The old man nodded. "There's a saying, 'Death hath a thousand doors to let out life; I shall find one.' We all have a door that waits. I know that. I accept it. But the children. That's what I struggle with.

Ruta Sepetys

#50. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.

Alice Morse Earle

#51. The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

Kathleen Turner

#52. The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

Neil Diamond

#53. What men have seen they know; but what shall come hereafter no man before the event can see, 1420 nor what end waits for him.

Sophocles

#54. The wise man waits and his enemies tear each other to pieces

Lesley Downer

#55. My wife called me a mule. She once said, "I didn't marry a man; I married a mule!" I kept thinking about it. It was in the back of my head. I think it makes a good title for an album.

Tom Waits