Top 80 Quotes About Waiting Too Long
#1. Since then, I have realized that my tree had been a child once too. The embryo that became my tree sat on the ground for years, caught between the danger of waiting too long and the danger of leaving the seed too early.
Hope Jahren
#2. Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.
Charlie Day
#3. In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.
Patrick Leahy
#4. Chase is playing escort this morning. He gets cranky if we keep him waiting too long."
"We wouldn't want the man with the Taser to get cranky.
Amanda E. Alvarez
#5. One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: 'Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.' Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#6. My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.
Marissa Meyer
#7. So long, I've been looking too hard, I've been waiting too long Sometimes I don't know what I will find, I only know it's a matter of time,When you love someone, when you love someone It feels so right, so warm and true, I need to know if you feel it too.
Foreigner
#8. Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.
Bernd Heinrich
#9. Oh yeah, you're a regular sage. Shouldn't you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?"
"Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?" he countered.
Jacquelyn Frank
#10. Don't make a feller wait too long. A feller waiting on a gal can get ornery'er than a huntin' dog that's tree'd it's squirrel.
Colleen Houck
#11. If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.
Michael Medved
#12. 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
#13. Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting
Patricia Marx
#14. Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.
John Goddard
#15. Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it
Randy Pausch
#16. [God] is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.
Erastus Snow
#17. 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
#18. If you wait for someone else to make things better, you'll be waiting a very long time
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.
Nick Flynn
#20. All I know is that every minute without him feels interminably long, like I'm waiting, just waiting for him to come back to me.
Jenny Han
#22. Death wasn't something to romanticize. It was something to stave off, to avoid, to fight as long as possible. Even though she had her battles with melancholy, she never seriously considered suicide. Something in her trusted that there would be an upswing and it would be worth waiting for.
Meredith Marple
#23. A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride.
Nick Harkaway
#25. And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.
Charlie Kaufman
#26. The other three orderlies who accompanied him are critical in the hospital.'
'Critical?'
'Yes. Don't like the food, beds uncomfortable, waiting lists too long - usual crap. Other than that they're fine.
Jasper Fforde
#27. The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
Tom Peters
#28. I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.
Christopher Lee
#29. The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.
Drake
#30. I saw something last night-a flash of power from an unexpected source. I can't jump to conclusions - I've been looking and waiting and watching for too long to make a mistake. But in my guy I feel she's here. She's here and she has power. I need to get closer to her.
Cate Tiernan
#31. If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.
Ron Kaufman
#32. Hey, Hot Stuff, Can't wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it's soon. You're way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I'm out here waiting. Your Future
Greg Behrendt
#33. You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.
David Levithan
#34. It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.
Adam Phillips
#35. That is what I imagined life to be-one long sentence of waiting out the clock.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#36. If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear.
Chelsea Handler
#37. Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#38. The untarred road wound away up the valley, innocent as yet of motor-cars, wound empty away to other villages, which lay empty too, the hot day long, waiting for the sight of a stranger. We
Laurie Lee
#39. If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
Robert Penn Warren
#40. I've known I was ready to spend the rest of my life with you for a long time, Jamie. I was only waiting for your stubborn butt to realize it, too.
Kelly Oram
#41. I have been waiting a long time for this. It's been my dream forever. Now that it's a reality, I love it. I haven't been burnt out at all and I have a bunch of guys with me that feel the same way.
Dierks Bentley
#42. Hide and Seek
It's hard not
to jump out
instead of waiting to be
found. It's
hard to be
alone so long
and then hear
someone come
around. It's
like some form
of skin's developed
in the air
that, rather
than have torn,
you tear.
Kay Ryan
#43. Keeping me a virgin waiting for him for so long proved he owned me even more than fucking me would have.
Tiffany Reisz
#44. There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.
Ashay Abbhi
#45. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
Sarah Paulson
#46. Because what he showed me is that he sees the same things in her I do. He knows she's worth waiting for. And when it's time, he intends to be the one. That's why he's keeping her close. To those of us who live forever, a few years isn't long to wait.
Karen Marie Moning
#47. He released her with obvious reluctance and shoved open his door, then came around to open her door. His chivalry brought an even broader smile. "Bet this doesn't last long", she teased. He took her hand. "You keep waiting for me to open it, and I will keep coming around.
Colleen Coble
#48. Life is not too short ... we just wait too long to begin it.
Joel Osteen
#49. His life was a long line of denials, just waiting for him.
Gillian Flynn
#50. Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.
Jimmy Buffett
#51. A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.
John Hollander
#52. Sometimes people would feign friendship for as long as it suited them. However resentment built, like dry kindling, stacked around a fire - waiting for the spark to ignite it.
Martyn Stanley
#53. Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David
Marek Fuchs
#54. So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
David Baldacci
#55. Here.
After so long waiting.
Her purple eyes.
Torn cloak.
Skin pale, sheer as ice.
Exhausted.
But unafraid.
Edith Pattou
#56. Do you think we'll be waiting long?" Valkyrie asked,
keeping her voice low.
"The last time we were in this building, we accused the
Grand Mage of being a traitor," Skulduggery said. "Yes, I think
we'll be waiting long.
Derek Landy
#57. What are you waiting for? How long will you keep waiting? Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.
Steve Maraboli
#58. 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
#59. We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#60. Find your way early, on the road of life. For the way is too long to be struggling, and far too short to be waiting.
Anthony Liccione
#61. He said, I like girls from broken homes who are crazy about chocolate and who love the rain. I've been waiting for a girl like that for a long time.
Mian Mian
#62. Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
#63. Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.
Eric Berne
#64. I couldn't bear the road anymore. I'm sure that a lot of people who have been on the road a long time will say the same thing. After a while, waiting for bedroom service and planes - I wanted to go home.
Barry Manilow
#65. I watched a rose-bud very long
Brought on by dew and sun and shower,
Waiting to see the perfect flower:
Then when I thought it should be strong
It opened at the matin hour
And fell at even-song.
Christina Rossetti
#66. Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.
Jessie Joe Parker
#67. One of the things he wanted to start screaming about was the surgeon's knife that was almost certain to be waiting for him and everyone else who lived long enough to die.
Joseph Heller
#68. The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
Ivor Novello
#69. I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
Samantha Fox
#70. It brings back a long-forgotten memory of Christmas, the year I turned six. I was supposed to be in bed, but I was up waiting and watching for my father or Santa Claus, whoever came first.
Carolee Dean
#71. Ken was Mary's new boyfriend, a nice guy who made all their friends comments, "Oh, there he is. That's what she's been waiting for," as if finding your perfect match was a guarantee as long as you were patient enough.
Jennifer Close
#73. I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.
Marc Jacobs
#74. When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.
Mark Matousek
#75. If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.
John Sheridan
#76. Fleetfoot turned to look up at Celaena, her golden eyes full of question. Celaena reached down to stroke the warm head, the long ears, the slender muzzle. But the question remained. Celaena said, "She's never coming back." The dog kept waiting.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.
Melissa De La Cruz
#78. But you won't tell me what it is?" "No." "Why?" "Because I'm afraid to, Kyrie. Because I've been waiting a very long time to bring you into my life, and now that I have you, I'm jealous of the time I get to spend with you.
Jasinda Wilder
#79. Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.
Jenny Nimmo
#80. If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.
Robert Kiyosaki
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