
Top 82 Waited Too Long Quotes
#1. I think one thing that may have happened with both Facebook and Zynga is that they may have waited too long to go public. They got particularly cute on that front.
Bill Gurley
#2. You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea.
Ed Sheeran
#3. Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.
Drake
#4. 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
#5. I've waited too long for this. Days. Weeks. Years.
Tessa Dare
#6. I loved the way he kissed me, as if he had to, as if he'd go crazy if he didn't and had nearly waited too long.
Sylvia Day
#7. If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.
Ron Kaufman
#8. It be more a feeling. Something swirls out in the beyond, something unnatural. It's the reason so few venture to these worlds. The black spaces are a part of it, pieces unraveling pulling apart. We've come too far, waited too long to turn back now. Only death awaits us here.
Jennifer Silverwood
#9. Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
Wendy Davis
#10. Where you're concerned, I'll try my best, Ava. I already told you, I've waited too long for you. You're my little piece of heaven. Nothing will rob you from me. Nothing.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#11. Often subtle clues are not obvious enough for the stubborn or stupid. This is when God stops throwing crumbs and starts throwing the whole piece of bread. If you step on moldy bread then you know you have waited too long.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. 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
#13. In the end, we only regretted the chances we didn't take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.
Taryn Plendl
#14. If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.
Matt Mullenweg
#15. I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.
Drake
#16. The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.
Bill McKibben
#17. If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
John Sununu
#18. Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
Bill Pascrell
#19. My mother's eyes were incomprehensible; they were dark stages where dimly seen mob scenes were staged and all one ever sensed was tumult and drama, and no matter how long one waited, the lights never went up and the scene never was explained.
Harold Brodkey
#20. I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
Fleur East
#21. I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.
Megan Hart
#22. over his shoulder at Rabiner. The agent had a wolfish smirk on his face. "Boss, I like the way you think," he said. Imhof pulled the keyboard toward him and began typing. Then he stared at the screen for a long moment while Coffey waited in growing impatience.
Douglas Preston
#23. I'm not a person who I ever thought would do well with divorce. Not that it can't happen. I just didn't want that. So I waited a long time to meet the right person. Then I finally met someone that I was willing to be divorced from.
Albert Brooks
#24. (Mavis led Lorelei over to a shaded spot on the deck where a large pile of shirts, pants, and socks waited. From where she stood, it was a daunting task.)
How long have you been working on that? Just since the dawn of time, or eternally? (Lorelei)
Kinley MacGregor
#25. She wasn't surprised when his character revealed itself - if you waited long enough, it always did. Like the dawn.
Colson Whitehead
#26. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.
Neil Gaiman
#27. Amatus waited a long time, but at last he broke the silence.
"There is much I don't understand."
"That will never change," Mortis said decisively. "Except that what you don't understand will change.
John Barnes
#28. The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
Wendell Phillips
#29. No second chance?"
A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
Nora Roberts
#30. Babe, you think I found the women of my dreams at 45 years old and I'm gonna let anything happen to her, think again. That's a long fuckin' time to wait for what you want. I waited. I found it. I'm pullin' out all the stops to take care of it.
Kristen Ashley
#31. We've waited a long time for this. I want the real thing. Not the watered-down version. And the real thing is not only beautiful. It is also ugly. I want your truth.
L.J. Shen
#32. Such a nice body.
She nearly dropped her brush. Will you stop! Just the low velvet touch of his voice sent heat curling through her body. It was sinful and unfair to have such a voice.
I did not think you would ever speak with me as a lifemate would. I waited long for that impatient comment.
Christine Feehan
#33. I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.
Tony D'Souza
#34. I've had a very unique path that's different from everybody else's. I was never a dater. I never went out that much. I've always had long-distance relationships. And, everything has come very fast in my life. I haven't waited for much.
Hilary Duff
#35. I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].
Mark Teixeira
#36. I wouldn't have waited this long for you. I would have already showed up at your dorm the minute I decided I wanted you. I wouldn't leave until I convinced you that you were mine
Sophie Jordan
#37. You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited ... and for me it was between the two buildings going down ... I had to do it, otherwise they'd win.
Louis C.K.
#38. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.
Charles Spurgeon
#39. That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.
Aryn Kyle
#40. The only thing I'm sure of is that I've waited entirely too damn long to have you.
Maya Banks
#41. I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.
Madeleine Albright
#42. The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.
J. Limbu
#43. They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited.
William Stafford
#44. Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you've waited, it's never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!
Steve Maraboli
#45. So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
Charlize Theron
#46. Sweetheart, this is my first time, too. I waited a long time for you, for this. I couldn't imagine being with anyone else but you. This is the beginning for us, baby. This is my forever,
Aria Cole
#47. She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.
Vera Brittain
#48. I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework
Gordon Clark
#49. Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.
Eugene V. Debs
#50. They had waited for too long, and the result was this hiatus, and the reflection that time and patience may bring poor rewards, that time itself, if not confronted at the appropriate juncture, can play sly tricks, and more significantly, that those who do not act are not infrequently acted upon.
Anita Brookner
#51. We have waited long. Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth. Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it.
Erin Hunter
#52. If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.
Anna Quindlen
#53. I waited a long time," I whispered.
"For what?" he asked.
"For you
Kristen Ashley
#54. Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Zora Neale Hurston
#55. She had waited so long for this. For this intimacy to be whole, complete, to unquestionably mean love.
Noelle Adams
#56. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.
Peter Dinklage
#57. We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.
Gene Wolfe
#58. I have waited a very long time to be able to have inappropriately timed discussions about the status of our relationship with you. I don't intend to let my own stupidity take this opportunity away from me.
Seanan McGuire
#59. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
Stephen King
#60. Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.
Ray Lamontagne
#61. moment she'd long waited for. The Hunters fell to complete
John M. Davis
#62. I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!
Rob McClure
#63. It wasn't long before he spotted another pay phone, a slanted structure near the river, and Annie and Emma waited patiently while he once again dialed and then hung up, but there was a strange comfort in the numbers, and words had never come easily to him anyways.
Jennifer E. Smith
#64. In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.
Catherynne M Valente
#65. Marple closed her eyes and fell asleep. It felt good. She felt like a kid again. She'd waited a long time to feel like that. It felt like the universe was folding in on itself. It felt like origami birds being born. - from THE IMMORTALS ACT THEIR AGE
Eric Beeny
#66. I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long ... " His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable."
"And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#67. 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
#68. Who are you?'
One who has waited long for you to speak.
C.S. Lewis
#69. You can't love him," he whispers. "I've waited so long. Why the boy? Why is it he that pounded a hole through the wall?
Kelsey Sutton
#70. I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'
Karen Allen
#71. God, I can't lose you again." His whisper was harsh, filled with pain. "Not now, when I've waited so long to hold you. I think it would kill me. But I'm so damn scared you'll hate me when you find out the truth.
Katherine Allred
#72. I know I don't. But it's the truth. Do you know how long I've waited to tell you the truth? I've jacked off every day this week thinking about your perfect lips around my cock.
Karina Halle
#73. On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
Karrie Webb
#74. They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.
Paula McLain
#75. Maybe, I think, when you've waited a long time to see something, you need to find your way to it in glimpses.
Laura Kasischke
#76. *No,* he said gently when her words finally stopped, *they don't want you. They don't love you, can't love you. But I do love you. The Priest loves you. The beautiful ones, the gentle ones - they love you. We've waited so long for you to come. We need you with us. We need you to walk among us.*
Anne Bishop
#77. I had waited so long for someone to pick me. And then he changed his mind. I
Lindy West
#78. Once his decision had been taken, he waited for the right opportunity. It was not long coming. Old
Victor Hugo
#79. Necromancer gives readers what they've long waited for
a rousing conclusion to the trilogy begun in Nomadin and continued in NiDemon. Put this trilogy on your 'must-keep' shelf. Enjoy!
Robert E. Vardeman
#80. No matter how long you waited, no matter how hard you wished, no matter how much you missed the past, time marched forward.
Sarah Ockler
#81. Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'
John Darnielle
#82. I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didnt.
Cormac McCarthy
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