Top 51 Wait Long Enough Quotes
#1. I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.
Junot Diaz
#2. I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out ... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.
Hector Elizondo
#3. Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
John Wyndham
#4. The thing about dark skies and rainy days is that, if you wait long enough, the sun will always shine again.
Leah Atwood
#5. Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men. It's simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
Ian Caldwell
#6. Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
Lalita Tademy
#8. If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.
Kinky Friedman
#9. I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.
Corra May Harris
#10. Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you. It might even take years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting.
Randy Pausch
#11. If you wait long enough, suddenly nothing will happen
Jack Gardner
#12. Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.
Barney Norris
#13. And sure enough, even waiting will end ... if you can just wait long enough.
William Faulkner
#14. The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
Alan Moore
#15. I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.
Wendy Mass
#16. It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.
George Eliot
#17. They say love's like a bus, and if you wait long enough another one will come along, but not in this place where the buses are slow and most of the cute ones are gay.
Daniel Handler
#18. Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
Randy Pausch
#19. Death will come if you wait long enough...Hopefully, it'll be a long wait!
David A. Frazier
#20. With deep men, as with deep wells, it takes a long time for anything that falls into them to hit bottom. Onlookers, who almost never wait long enough, readily suppose that such men are callous and unresponsive
or even boring.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. All suffering has an end, David, if only you wait long enough. Sorrow has its life like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.
Anne Holm
#22. People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.
Cynthia Lord
#23. There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.
Shirley Booth
#24. If you are patient ... and wait long enough ... Nothing will happen
Jim Davis
#25. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough, Mistress," he said. "Then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score.
Charles Duhigg
#27. And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.
C.F. Joyce
#28. If you wait long enough," he said, "people will surprise and impress you.
Randy Pausch
#29. If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough.
Catherine Friend
#30. I don't come taking millions of pictures. I spend time with them and simply observe. If you wait long enough those amazing images will come.
Ami Vitale
#31. The nice thing about things that are urgent," he liked to say, "is that if you wait long enough they aren't urgent anymore." "I
Michael Lewis
#32. I've operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn't afford to wait long enough for their free operation.
John Barrasso
#33. If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.
Joseph Barrell
#34. If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.
Aleksandar Hemon
#35. You don't have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you'll find the place to wait and they'll come to you. There's nearly always a better way of doing something.
Terry Pratchett
#36. This I can report from the front lines: life never calms down long enough for us to wait until tomorrow to start living the lives we deserve.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#37. When will you tell your men the good news?" "Not for as long as I can avoid it." "They're busy-bodies. They'll find out soon enough." "I know." "I can't wait." Friedrich
K.M. Shea
#38. If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.
Charles Bukowski
#39. If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.
Sun Tzu
#40. Prayers are answered in one of four ways," she said. "Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And ... "
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. "And what's the
fourth answer?"
"Wait," she said.
Megan McCafferty
#41. We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.
Charles Dickens
#42. Letting go of who you're supposed to be and discovering who you really are is a journey of many experiences, but certainty is not one of them. No matter how long you wait, it'll never feel safe enough. Plunge in anyway.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled.
Toba Beta
#44. Years later she finally realized what he'd been doing by making her wait so long. He'd given her a reason to leave him. A very good reason. He loved her enough to let her go even before he'd had her. And she'd loved him enough to wait for him.
Tiffany Reisz
#45. That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.
Aryn Kyle
#46. Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.
Sun Tzu
#47. It wasn't perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn't. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.
Max Brooks
#48. He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
Samuel Beckett
#49. Here she barked out her greetings in Italian, anxious to disassociate herself from the horseless American cowboys and above all from her own kind, the truly lost and unwanted, who move like leaves around the edges of the world, gathering only long enough to wait in line and see if there is any mail
John Cheever
#50. There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.
Etgar Keret
#51. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.
Sandy Fussell
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