Top 27 Quotes About Waiting And Wishing
#1. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
Wally Lamb
#2. Maybe my sister and I shared more than we thought. We were both waiting and wishing for something we couldn't completely control: I wanted to be alone, and she the total opposite. It was weird, really, to have something so contrary in common. But at least it was something.
Sarah Dessen
#3. I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks.
Shandy L. Kurth
#4. Under the sea, the merman feast on starfish soup and all the serving men are crabs.
George R R Martin
#5. Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
Helen Mirren
#6. Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by
wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.
Carrie Underwood
#7. I am in love with Counting Crows. It is so manly and American.
Margaret Cho
#8. Having priorities is essential. So is having them in the right order.
Michael Hyatt
#9. In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence - wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
Seth Adam Smith
#10. Waiting for the end to come,
Wishing I had strength to stand,
This is not what I had planned,
It's out of my control
Linkin Park
#11. Today I keep thinking of all the people who have left and never returned - my brothers, Khan Tegus, our guards, this entire city. What a strange, dark world that swallows people whole.
Shannon Hale
#13. Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
Jules Verne
#14. I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
R.L. LaFevers
#15. On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found ... a swarm of ... small, blue butterflies drinking the water. ... I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday.
Hermann Hesse
#16. There was no point in waiting for someone who hadn't asked, and there was no point in wishing for something that would never happen.
Jennifer E. Smith
#17. He keeps us waiting rather than wishing for him. I feel it a matter of perfect indifference whether he arrives at any moment or not at all." - Lady Harriet Cavendish of George Beau Brummell
Ian Kelly
#18. I paused, partly for breath, and partly because I felt I had said enough. I stood there, waiting for her reply, wishing I had a throat lozenge to suck.
P.G. Wodehouse
#19. DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.
John Irving
#20. Just standing on the slope, waiting, I felt helplessly committed with the other two. I started hating the predicament, and then hating climbing, utterly and in general, and wishing myself out of it.
Peter Boardman
#21. You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.
Charlie Kaufman
#22. Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
Edward Said
#23. If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization
Ludwig Von Mises
#24. The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!
Steven Furtick
#25. Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Marcus Aurelius
#26. I've been waiting for this a long time."-Martin "Let me guess that you're wishing for your IQ to break double figures?"- Alex V.
Benedict Jacka
#27. If you believe that God overrules all things for good, and only permits apparently evil happenings for good and the achievement of great ends unbeknown to you, then all is well. All is well because you believe in the sovereignty of God.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
