Quotes About Long Waits

#1. This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#2. If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Jim Cymbala

#3. 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

#4. But I have long loved the written word, and come to see in it the power of the sleeping lion. This is my name. This is who I am. This is how I got here. In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

Lawrence Hill

#5. When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

Laura Teresa Marquez

#6. Patiently, hopefully, actively we are waiting for Jesus. And yet here is the astonishing twist: As we wait for our Lord and the bodily resurrection yet to come for the departed, the world waits for us. As we long for God, the world is longing for God in us.

Jonathan Martin

#7. ...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

#8. He waits a long time. The captain reviews the fingernails

Anthony Doerr

#9. Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

Tom Waits

#10. Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

Tom Waits

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

Markus Zusak

#12. The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are gone, it waits patiently. And when we return to it, as we must, it sings to us. We came out of its forests, waded ashore from its seas. It is in our blood, for good or ill.

Jack McDevitt

#13. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

#14. Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own ...

Tom Waits

#15. He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.

George Herbert

#16. Anyone who believes everything comes to him who waits hasn't been waiting very long.

Morrow Wilson

#17. Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast ...

Sam Altman

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

Jules Renard

#19. There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

Tom Waits

#20. Death is always sudden however long one waits.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#21. There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

Ice Cube

#22. If one waits for everyone to get wiser it will take too long.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

Robert K. Greenleaf

#24. I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Landon Liboiron

#25. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.

Bernd Heinrich

#26. 'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

Jason Newsted

#27. Well it's hotter 'n blazes and all the long faces / there'll be no oasis for a dry local grazier

Tom Waits

#28. I can't listen to so much music at the same time. I think you really have to have a diet. You're just processing too much, there's no place to put it. If you go a long time without hearing music, then you hear music that nobody else hears.

Tom Waits

#29. Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

Miguel Syjuco

#30. You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Tom Waits

#31. I am trying to teach my mind to bear the long, slow growth of the fields, and to sing of its passing while it waits.
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Eugene H. Peterson

#32. Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Tom Waits