Top 100 Quotes About Waiting
#1. Through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.
Edward Weston
#2. When I started writing, I thought nobody would understand the things that I liked. Then I began getting a lot of letters from people who said they were waiting for me to express what they felt they couldn't, so I kept writing.
Novala Takemoto
#4. Everyday that I'm away from you, my heart reaches out a little further
Waiting for you to grab and make it yours
Cause to me, you've already put it on layaway
so you can pick it up on a better day
Austin V. Songer
#5. Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here
here in the darkness waiting, here attentive, here approving of your labor and your dream.
Thomas Wolfe
#6. We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
Joyce Meyer
#7. I imagine the ones we've lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that's terrifying, and sometimes it's reassuring, a promise of homecoming.
Ann Aguirre
#8. You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#9. Hazel Grace," he said.
"Hi," I said. "How are you?"
"Grand," he said. "I have been wanting to call you on a nearly minutely basis, but I have been waiting until I could form a coherent thought in re An Imperial Affliction."
(He said "in re." He really did. That boy.)
John Green
#10. The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
Flo Rida
#12. 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.
Neil Gaiman
#13. I gripped hold of that scarf like my life depended on it. Still to this day I inhale it every night, despite what has happened over the years. I don't blame her now for not waiting. For all she knew, I wouldn't return. But to marry him, god, she could have done so much better.
LeeAnn Whitaker
#14. Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person
Wilferd Peterson
#15. It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers.
Terry Pratchett
#16. For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
Cezmi Ersoz
#17. The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.
Leah Raeder
#18. Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#19. At least it was gym and there was a little wiggle room.
Or so I thought. Miss Lynn,that hideous creature, was waiting outside the door, marking off girls as they came in.
Kiersten White
#21. Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.
Amy Johnson
#22. The unhappiness that I need and long for is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust ... That is the unhappiness or happiness I am waiting for ...
Hermann Hesse
#23. Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?'
Alberto Villoldo
#24. Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.
Joan D. Chittister
#25. The dog is not bored. It's not like he's waiting for me to give him a fucking Rubik's Cube. He's a goddamned dog.
Justin Halpern
#26. When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.
Joseph Campbell
#27. I don't. But if I had your love, I wouldn't waste it like he does. He's playing a game with you. He'll regret pushing you away, though, when he realizes I'm here, waiting to catch you.
Jessica Hawkins
#28. As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.
Tiny Tim
#29. A dread that something bad was waiting for me has followed me most of my life. I have a morbid fear of the dark. I will never close my eyes in the shower. There are parts of my own house I am just beginning to go into.
Ellen Bass
#30. Here Sidney sat, with the ham sandwich and flask of tea that Mrs Maguire had prepared, and let thoughts come to him. It was a form of prayer, he decided. It was not asking or talking but waiting and listening. The
James Runcie
#31. Her body sighed, taking him in as if she'd been waiting for this her
whole life.
Perhaps she had.
Monica McCarty
#32. I've been waiting a long time for last year. But I guess it's just not coming again.
Philip K. Dick
#33. When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.
Mel Brooks
#34. Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.
Tahir Shah
#35. if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's
Rod Dreher
#36. I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you'd run for cover. (Zarek)
Only if I knew you'd be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
Jonathan Edwards
#38. Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.
Neil Gaiman
#39. 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
#40. Waiting with too few men, and with every instinct telling me to run. Every instinct, except for that one to hold or break, but never bend. I
Mark Lawrence
#41. You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.
Keysha Jade
#42. Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.
Percival Lowell
#43. [ ... ]patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#44. Yellow leaves hang on your tree of life. The messengers of death are waiting. You are going to travel far away. Have you any provisions for the journey?
Anonymous
#45. When you work, live, love and play without waiting for the next moment, everything you are and encounter flourishes.
Ryan Kurczak
#46. If the first kiss made me hollow this kiss fills me up. I've been waiting for this since the day I met her, since I saw her dreams, since her voice began haunting me, since I got to know the person she is, since our minds connected. Everything has come to this.
Saruuh Kelsey
#47. I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.
Kemp Muhl
#49. I wish she knew that there are other options besides "complete and utter breakdown" and "plastic smile, everything's fine." There's a middle ground, waiting to be found.
Cat Clarke
#50. There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me.
Shay Youngblood
#51. If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#52. I'm not very charismatic or telegenic. I feel bad for the kids waiting three hours in line for their book to be signed.
Jeff Kinney
#53. For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cutting, what seems to be endless rewriting, and what is entailed in all that is patience, and waiting, and false starts, and dead ends, and really, in a way, nerve.
Deborah Eisenberg
#54. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#55. The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.
Chris Prentiss
#56. It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come ... it's painful waiting for them.
Oscar Wilde
#57. The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.
Jeanette Winterson
#58. For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
near them, waiting.
Patanjali
#60. In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
Barbara Corcoran
#61. And so creation itself is eagerly watching the sons and daughters of the King, waiting for the last one to come into the kingdom so that the rocks and trees can be set free.
Matt Chandler
#62. Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#63. At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies ... listening in the silence for what He has to say to us.
Billy Graham
#64. It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.
Reinhard Bonnke
#65. The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.
Michael J. Kannengieser
#66. She said that everything that disappeared from our side went over to theirs, where they kept living normal lives, waiting for the things still lingering with us to join them, and make the world whole once more.
Alexandra Kleeman
#67. I want to be that guy you can't ever take out of your head, Rachel. The one you've been waiting for. I want you to have eyes just for me and smile just for me and a tone of voice only I will hear.
Katy Evans
#68. I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
Salma Hayek
#69. There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys.
Barack Obama
#70. My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
Cathy Guisewite
#71. I didn't even know I was lost until you found me.I didn't know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You're the one thing I've got right. You've what I've been waiting for, Pigeon.
Jamie McGuire
#72. I'm hitting the sack"
"Are you twenty-nine or sixty-nine?"
The devilish dimples appeared. "Twenty-nine with a sixty-nine waiting at home
Cherrie Lynn
#73. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#75. Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh."
He nodded. "And?"
"You're pretty good-looking."
"Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful."
"You want to be beautiful?" I asked him.
"Are you saying I'm not?
Sarah Dessen
#76. You mean you want me to throw rocks at a bunch of monkeys in a tree in order to compete for food and prove that I, man, am the superior species? Chica," he said, clicking his tongue, "I've been waiting for an opportunity like this my whole life.
Jessica Khoury
#77. We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?
John F. Kerry
#78. When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.
Josemaria Escriva
#79. I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie
#80. 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
#81. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#82. It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.
Elizabeth Berg
#83. my life is just waiting for you to get started.
Nina LaCour
#84. I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses with fear.
Devon Ashley
#85. I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.
Chord Overstreet
#86. It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
Christian Bale
#87. But he never forgot how once by not knowing time,
He escaped into the clockless land of ever,
Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born.
U.A. Fanthorpe
#89. WGrayson7: yeah. what are you doing up at 1:33:48?
willupleasebequiet: waiting to see if 1:33:49 is any better. you?
John Green
#90. [A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first."
Ronald Reagan
#91. Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.
Bruce Springsteen
#92. Every once in a while, it pays to listen to those annoying characters who are just waiting to tell you how to do your job.
Joe McNally
#93. Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
Natalie Goldberg
#94. Seth: I need you to be mine. I can't handle this chasing you around nonsense anymore. These moments we have, where it feels like I almost have you but I'm always wondering what you're thinking and waiting for you to run from me? I can't take it. It's for this to be a real relationship.
Kelly Oram
#95. Instead,
she's as still
as a leaf-littered pond,
dark water evaporating,
waiting desperately for rain.
Emma Cameron
#97. With wings like clear ice, the purple-black fairy flew down and pressed her tiny lips to Ilyenna's. Suddenly, the cold embraced her like an old friend. She felt as if winter's secrets were hidden somewhere deep inside her, waiting to be discovered.
Amber Argyle
#98. I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."
Howard Gossage
#99. [O]ne should never wait for life. Dare to live dangerously. You never know what mysteries could be waiting in the shadows.
Elizabeth Hunter
#100. Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
Marian Keyes
