Quotes About Waiting For Your Turn

#1. It may not be in the way you had expected it to turn out. But I think He has shown you that even in your deepest valley, He is there with you. Even when you think He didn't care, He was always there watching over you, waiting for you to accept His protection. - Author: Trisha Grace

#2. Are you really listening ... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk? - Author: Robert Montgomery

#3. Is it scarier than Jocko's teddy bear being full of spiders waiting for bedtime so they can crawl in his ears when he sleeps and spin a web in his brain and turn him into a spider slave? - Author: Dean Koontz

#4. I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ... - Author: Elizabeth Goudge

#5. You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. - Author: Michael Aspel

#6. Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger. - Author: Steven Furtick

#7. But sometimes you have to pretend to be feeling better to actually feel better. It's why new workout clothes make you feel like you want to work out. I was still waiting for that one to turn out to be true . . . - Author: Alice Clayton

#8. I'm not yet defeated, just waiting for my next turn to throw the dice again. - Author: Neetesh Dixit

#9. Turn your mobile phone off for a few hours each day. Having nothing to do while you're waiting for a bus can be boring, but it's only when you're bored that the scary thoughts come to the surface. Use a dumb phone on the weekends to prevent yourself from checking your messages. - Author: Julien Smith

#10. I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd seen me on television, the heads turn. They say, Wait a minute. I don't know who that is, but he's somebody. - Author: Tom Lehrer

#11. I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
and stuff me so full of our infected child
that I turn invisible, but married,
at last. - Author: Anne Sexton

#12. I'm not good at just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that the perfect role is going to turn up. - Author: Ed Speleers

#13. To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, 'You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning. - Author: Margaret Thatcher

#14. I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green. - Author: Terry McMillan

#15. My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity. - Author: Michelle Franklin

#16. You never know when things are going to turn around. Things could turn around tomorrow. That's what I keep waiting for. If you left now, you'd never know. - Author: Amy Kinzer

#17. If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do ... and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you. - Author: Leo Tolstoy

#18. The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again. - Author: M.C. Beaton

#20. We're all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn - unless you get offered something like Twilight when you're 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away. - Author: Adam Rayner

#21. I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival. - Author: Quentin Blake

#22. I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn. - Author: Steve Southerland

#23. A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk. - Author: Laozi

#24. People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk. - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#25. I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright. - Author: Tony Robbins

#26. When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#27. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men. - Author: Eric Jerome Dickey

#28. People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour. - Author: Terry Pratchett

#29. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it. - Author: Cora Carmack

#30. You see, people don't really listen anymore, no... they just sit around waiting for everyone else to shut up, waiting until it's finally their turn to talk. Back and forth, an endless cycle that gets us nowhere, because nobody really gives a shit about what's being said. - Author: J.M. Darhower

#31. Listening is not waiting for your turn to talk - Author: S.E. Sever

#32. You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait until you know the car is facing the corner exit direction. then you smile and slam on the gas as you exit the corner. - Author: Keiichi Tsuchiya

#33. What happens from here on out is unknown territory for anybody. There's no map. We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it. I have no idea. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#34. If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year. - Author: Jason Schmidt

#35. A game. That's all life is, that's all it feels like. Everyone waiting for their turn to spin the bottle or for the bottle to finally choose them. Who would you rather is real. We can be erased, that's real too. - Author: Alexis Bass

#36. Posting a brag, humble or otherwise, and then waiting for people to respond is the equivalent of having a conversation in which all you do is wait for your turn to speak. - Author: Meghan Daum

#37. Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. - Author: Frederick William Robertson

#38. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I'd have to stop. I'd have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return. - Author: Courtney Giardina

#39. As long asthe audience or the public perceives you to be sincere in your approach and not petty, they will think it's fair and they will wait for the other person's response. But if they sense it's petty or the slightest bit unfair, they'll turn on you right away. - Author: Roger Ailes

#40. There are different types of soldier. Some men are trained to stand under fire, waiting for their turn to inflict death. Others are like hunters, slipping from cover to cover. - Author: Miles Cameron

#41. The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. - Author: Werner Heisenberg

#42. This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them - Author: Mark Mason

#43. Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting ... that the loved one will turn to someone else. - Author: Agatha Christie

#44. The world beyond the glass is the world of masculine action. Everything she sees is what a man has built. But at each turn-off, each junction, women are waiting to know their fate. - Author: Hilary Mantel

#45. Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time."
I was totally confused. "In the car?"
"In your life," he said. - Author: Megan McCafferty

#46. Somewhere in Limbo, all the old devices and appliances and costumes are lined up, waiting their turn for reentry. - Author: Margaret Atwood

#47. We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it. - Author: Haruki Murakami

#48. I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return. - Author: Kevin Brooks

#49. I walk a loop around the neighborhood, waiting for Nick to appear, to guide me back to our house. The rain spackles me gently, dampening me. I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door. - Author: Gillian Flynn

#50. It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me. - Author: Melissa De La Cruz

#51. A book is a carrier, and the ideas contained within its covers are an infection waiting to be spread. They breed in men. They adapt according to the host. Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds. - Author: John Connolly

#52. Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die ... #AHOLE - Author: A.O. Storm

#53. Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once. - Author: Rory Bremner

#54. Is there a reason why you seek every opportunity to annoy me?"
"It's fun. Your scar flashes when you frown. It almost looks like a dimple," said Vikram. "I'm still waiting for your face to turn red with anger. It might make you look like you're blushing. Or perhaps I am making you blush? - Author: Roshani Chokshi

#55. Life really is a most whimsical thing. While we consistently try and chart its route, it goes ahead and takes its own turn. Just follow the paths it lays out before you. And you may find, at some sudden turn, a miracle waiting just for you. - Author: Jyoti Arora

#56. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless. - Author: Joanne Fluke

#57. No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still waiting for it to turn the corner. - Author: Robert Breault

#58. All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide. - Author: Sara Bareilles

#59. That's right! Run! Because if you don't, that fire is just waiting to finish the job off!" When the last one disappears from view, I turn and start walking back towards the hills. I need to find my friends. - Author: Pittacus Lore

#60. God is just waiting for you to turn your face back toward Him. You've not gone too far! - Author: Beth Moore

#61. All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women! - Author: Hiromu Arakawa

#62. I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn. - Author: Tom Stoppard

#63. There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#64. No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone. - Author: Diem Brown

#65. Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down. - Author: Henry Tizard

#66. Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot. - Author: Gianfranco Fini

#67. It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed. - Author: Howard Wilkinson

#68. Inspiration is already here, waiting for you to turn around and look at it. - Author: Matthew Krause

#69. Whenever you turn around, I'll be watching and waiting for you. - Author: Pamela Morsi

#70. Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life. - Author: Wilma Mankiller

#71. How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to be my turn to say something? For how many of us is that what conversation means - the setting up of our lines? - Author: Alexander McCall Smith

#72. I'm not a smuggler, I'm a missionary. I have chosen to be obedient and not turn away from danger. So when government says, 'No!', I said, 'wait a minute', God said, 'Go!', so I didn't listen to the 'No!' - Author: Andrew Van Der Bijl

#73. When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn. - Author: Larry McMurtry

#74. They're coming! All of us waiting for the little green men to probe us or decimate us or turn us into shrubbery. - Author: Andrew Pyper

#75. There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say you'll know it.
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. - Author: Taylor Swift

#76. If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring. - Author: Mikhail Tal

#77. I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It's dealing with the material I'm inundated with that poses the problem. - Author: Alice Munro

#78. And when the music died, life was always a little less bright, waiting for the next turn on the sprung, hardwood floor. - Author: Alana Albertson

#79. At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives. - Author: T. S. Eliot

#80. The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. - Author: Megan McCafferty

#81. It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling. - Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. You make my dance daring enough to finish. No more timidity. Let fruit fall, and wind turn my roots up in the air, done with patient waiting. - Author: Rumi

#83. He whispered, "That miracle you were praying for - he's patiently waiting his turn to hold you."
Laura lifted her head from John's chest, focusing on the faces around her. At last, her eyes fell upon him. Tony smiled softly. - Author: Adriana Parrinello

#84. There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you. - Author: Marian Anderson

#85. When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak - Author: Chuck Palahniuk

#86. The thing is, God has already seen every twist and turn of your life. He already knows what's in your heart. He already knows the decisions you've made. He's just waiting for you to call on Him and be honest with Him like Jonah was. - Author: Victoria Osteen

#87. And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor's turn, to get into Eli's head and do some ruining. - Author: V.E Schwab

#88. Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red. - Author: Mary Hughes

#89. He led me to the barn, where a Mexican man stood waiting for his turn at the shower. "Whole-aah, Toe-moss," he shouted. - Author: David Sedaris

#90. We have been waiting for you so that we could turn over the government. - Author: Duong Van Minh