Silently Waiting Quotes

#1. The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I watch his face silently, waiting for him to explain. "I don't want to be the asshole who keeps you away from your friends," he says. "And I don't want you to feel like you have to keep things from me in order to see them. And I'm sorry because you obviously felt exactly that way.

J. Kenner

#3. I knew you were behind the tapestry," he said. "I also knew the railing was about to give way. I was waiting for you, waiting for your fall."
Waiting all my life for you, he added silently, waiting all my life for you to fall in love with me.

Elizabeth Elliott

#4. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Dale Carnegie

#5. God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

Meher Baba

#6. Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

Johnny Mercer

#7. Though I yearn to help, I will not violate your freedom. I stand silently in the background of your mind, waiting for you to remember that I am with you.

Sarah Young

#8. In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served in a more humiliating and debasing role than that in which the railway unions appear at this very hour before the American people and the world.

Eugene V. Debs

#9. I was proud to be a member of the IRA. I am still 40 years on proud that I was a member of the IRA. I am not going to be a hypocrite and sit here and say something different.

Martin McGuinness

#10. All the beasts from sloth to pigmy shrew, arrayed silently in ordered cavalcade as if waiting admission to the Ark.

M T Anderson

#11. You race toward something You don't know what you'll find But you'll notice it when you see it You say, "there must be more Out there waiting silently" You know your place But you hate it just the same - Casey Stratton, "Harvest.

Amelia C. Gormley

#12. We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

Kevin Garnett

#13. Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Carl Sagan

#14. Resilience is not a commodity you are born with, waiting silently on tap. It is self-manufactured painstakingly over time by working through your problems and never giving up, even in the face of difficulty or failure.

Lorii Myers

#15. There was only the two of them standing on top of the world, the rest of their lives waiting silently at their feet.
They eased apart, still touching with their eyes, their hands, their souls. (Girl Descending)

Jenny O'Brien

#16. Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Elisabeth Elliot

#17. He was so gorgeous ... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

Courtney Love

#18. Dried out and curled up in a ball, me, I am like tea. Waiting to be immersed. Willing to unfold. Wanting to unfurl. Wailing silently to be exposed. Whimpering till that day. It seems I'm wilting and withering away.

Dharlene Marie Fahl

#19. All creations demand greenery of spirt.

Diana Vreeland

#20. I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

Amy Poehler

#21. No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

David Sedaris

#22. Count the inspirations. The exquisite inspirations that have whispered in the night. And swum away like fish in the cool of morning. Would any of them have altered the patterns of your life? The precise arrangement of your atoms?

Jay Woodman

#23. There's only one person who hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids upon the death of their loved one. Others hug but having committed the troops, I've got an additional responsibility to hug and that's me and I know what it's like.

George W. Bush