Top 100 Wait For Quotes
#1. I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.
Frederick Lenz
#2. I'll wait for you however long you need. It's okay. I understand.
Shelly Crane
#3. It's useless to wait-for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. The catastrophe is not coming, it is here. We are already situated within the collapse of a civilization. It is within this reality that we must choose sides.
The Invisible Committee
#4. Never wait for the alarm clock to wake you up; your passion must wake you up against sluggish lifestyles. Positive passion keeps you hot until the work it finished!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
Ice-T
#7. It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have to wait for the guy to finish shooting before he starts editing.
Joe Dante
#8. Great anguish lies in wait for those who long too greatly.
Mary Renault
#9. To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!
Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)
T.D. Jakes
#10. I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
Rene Auberjonois
#11. In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.
Shawn Lukas
#12. You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.
Tama J. Kieves
#14. If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
Ian Fleming
#15. In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones - another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure - they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!
Booth Tarkington
#16. There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.
Tom Sturridge
#17. All of us need to self-promote. We cannot sit back and wait for our gallery or rep to do it all.
Jack White
#18. I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.
Paul Van Dyk
#19. When it seems humanly impossible to do more in a difficult situation, surrender yourself to the inner silence and thereafter wait for a sign of obvious guidance or for a renewal of inner strength.
Paul Brunton
#20. The world will not wait for us.
Bob Hawke
#21. You go through life looking for a teacher and then when you find him, you become so dependent on him that you grow to hate him. Or else you wait for him to show his weakness and then you despise him for being human.
Erica Jong
#22. When things went dark and you search for a light to see things clearly, that light is guidance.
Don't wait for it, actually you have to search for it.
M.H. Rakib
#23. You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding.
Dana Gould
#25. If for some reason we get separated, I want you to wait for me. I'll find you, I promise. - Gabriel Emerson
Sylvain Reynard
#26. If you love someone and they don't love you back, wait for them. If they still don't love you after waiting, they aren't really worth your time. Darn, why did I waste all that time waiting then?
Sage Cohen
#27. You can desire joy, and hope for it, but joy has a mind of its own and won't let itself be pressured or stressed. So wait for it, allow yourself to be happy, and be happy when you are happy.
Matias Dalsgaard
#29. I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
Coleman Barks
#30. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.
Albert Camus
#31. There's nothing you can do about busted ribs. You just have to wait for them to pop back into place again.
Kevin McCloud
#32. She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away while I can.
Christine Fonseca
#33. 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.
Roger Ailes
#34. Time is a false thing, meaningless when it's not attached to colors and people and light because in the dark there is nothing - only the stilted shadows of lie as they wait for the sun.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#35. If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George
#36. He wants you and Rayna both to stay away until he announces the ceremony. I told him you had plenty to keep you occupied until then."
"What do you mean?"
"Are you brainless as a reef, minnow? You can have Emma now. Why you're wasting your time here in Eggland-Galen? Galen, wait for me!
Anna Banks
#37. Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
Elfriede Jelinek
#38. People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
Seth Godin
#39. We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Kofi Annan
#40. You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.
Robert Ferrigno
#41. I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.
Pierre Corneille
#42. My thank-yous always come out rather labored. I often don't give them at all. People do what they're supposed to do and then wait for you to pile on the appreciation
they're like frozen-yogurt employees who put out cups for tips.
Gillian Flynn
#43. Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.
Kyrsten Sinema
#44. I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.
John Leguizamo
#45. I lean closer and whisper. I'm already there, so I guess I'll wait for you
Jolene Perry
#46. Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.
Leymah Gbowee
#47. Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.
Malala Yousafzai
#48. When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.
Charles Dickens
#49. Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.
Laini Taylor
#50. Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
Iain M. Banks
#51. If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.
Mark Batterson
#52. I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
Bill Watterson
#53. Why is it so? If live is a gift, all that belongs to and is intrinsic to life is going to be a gift. You can wait for it, you can be receptive to it, you can remain in a surrendered mood, waiting, patient, but you cannot demand, and you cannot force.
Rajneesh
#54. A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.
Bob Keeshan
#55. One of the joys of being a grandparent is giving your grandchild caffeinated sugary drinks late in the day, and sending them home. Do you have any idea how many years I had to wait for that?
Neil Leckman
#56. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see. And don't think it takes a huge team to make that difference either.
Jason Fried
#57. There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.
Peter Weir
#58. Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'
Hannibal Buress
#59. Tonpa, be anxious no more
Hard times have abandoned you
Good times lie in wait for you
M.C. Mary Kom
#60. Years, so many years we'd been friends and sisters . . . and now she was gone. Taking a handful of dirt, I held it over the grave, and let it sift through my fingers. "Be at peace, Milly. Wait for me on the other side, my friend.
Shannon Mayer
#61. Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action.
Wallace D. Wattles
#62. I sometimes say that success just happens. That's not true. You have to make it happen. When I make up my mind to do something, I make sure it happens. You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.
Michael Grade
#63. But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.'
'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.
Katherine Neville
#64. Wait for it patiently - annihilation or metamorphosis.
Marcus Aurelius
#66. As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.
Thomas Davis
#67. If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.
Bill Simon
#68. I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.
Grace Zabriskie
#69. Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
Kirk Douglas
#70. The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
Roger Ebert
#71. Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Robert Frost
#72. If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness.
C. JoyBell C.
#73. Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.
J.G. Holland
#74. If there's one thing you should know about dealing with programmers is do not distract them. Wait for them to come to you. Just put your request in the queue. Never expect a programmer to do something immediately.
Anonymous
#75. Some seek and find peace in life; some have to wait for peace in the afterlife.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.
Steven Pressfield
#77. Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.
Frederick Lenz
#78. Wyomingites, Joe had observed, didn't know what to do when it rained except get out of it, watch it through the window, and wait for it to go away.
C.J. Box
#79. It's fine to wait for an appropriate time, but it's inappropriate to wait forever.
Ron Kaufman
#80. At the fourth flight Lila did something unexpected. She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.
Elena Ferrante
#81. When I wait for only half a second,
it all makes worth waiting for,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Worldpoet 546
September 1, 2016
Petra Hermans
#83. The power dynamics in a relationship are going to be fluid over a long period of time, so to wait for 'perfect' is going to be a mistake.
Jason Segel
#84. I can't wait for you forever, she found herself thinking as she lay in bed most mornings, thinking about her dreams, waiting for her alarm to ring.
Ann Brashares
#85. Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.
Stephen Colbert
#86. You cannot wait for the change. You have to be the change.
Armin Houman
#87. How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.
Steve Maraboli
#88. The revelation is this: don't wait for some revelation. We make our own luck.
Carl Safina
#89. I clipped a Ferrari, hit the gravel trap at a fair old speed, which lifted the car up into the barrier, and then rolled a few times. I had no injuries or anything - I just had to wait for the marshals to right the car before I could get out.
Allan McNish
#90. If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Stephen Covey
#91. Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.
Nicholas Sparks
#92. Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
Marguerite Duras
#93. Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
Markus Zusak
#94. Men are like busses. I mean, you wait for ages and ages, and when one does finally come along you can't get on. And that bit about them coming in threes, well, that's just a myth.
Eleanor Prescott
#95. Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
Julian Ovenden
#97. Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in tranquility. But how to get it? Sit here and wait for it or go out and seek it? ... I expect it will be sit and wait.
Barbara Pym
#99. You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start, right now; this very moment.
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. you did, I think. With a few inches of my flesh. While we wait for the elevators, Johanna unzips the
Suzanne Collins
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