Waiting For Future Quotes

#1. Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration.

Ron Wyden

#2. I knew what was waiting out there for me," he said. "Terrifying things. There were German patrol boats, mine fields, and nearly a thousand miles of stormy seas." "So why did you do it?" "Because also waiting for me was the most terrifying and wonderful thing of all. The future.

Michael Dobbs

#3. Hey, Hot Stuff, Can't wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it's soon. You're way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I'm out here waiting. Your Future

Greg Behrendt

#4. Don't dwell on the mistakes of the past while the mistakes of the future are waiting for you

S.E. Sever

#5. But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future,

Gina McCarthy

#6. What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I spent a lifetime giving my power away, assuming that everybody knew better what was right for me than me. And then there comes a point in your life you go, Oh, wait a second! There's an a-ha moment when you realize that the only person that can delegate your future is you.

Mariel Hemingway

#8. In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin

#9. The future exists only in our imagination
it is a collective story waiting for our voices to express
that can only happen when you and I are willing to enter the emptiness
listening in the silence
until we can begin to create a future we can befriend.

Dawna Markova

#10. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. I'm waiting for the stars to pop through the black above, waiting for the future to wash over me like so many salty waves - some as turbulent as my thoughts and some as velvety as a good kiss.

Matthew Quick

#12. There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

Wes Fesler

#13. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Earl Nightingale

#14. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#15. Nobody should know what's waiting for them. If you knew your future, why ... it would take all the fun out of living.

David Llewellyn

#16. As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."

Benjamin Stone

#17. What good news regularly does, then, is to put a new event into an old story, point to a wonderful future hitherto out of reach, and so introduce a new period in which, instead of living a hopeless life, people are now waiting with excitement for what they know is on the way.

N. T. Wright

#18. What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us.
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.

V.C. Andrews

#19. When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future.

Gretchen Rubin

#20. I don't know what's waiting for me around the corner and I don't know what else I'm going to be doing in the future - but you've got to enjoy things while you're doing them. There are tough times and mountains to climb, but you've got to go for it.

Miley Cyrus

#21. Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next ... Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.

Francois Lelord

#22. Nothing smelled worse than the death of another human being. Not horses or cattle or rotten whales washed onto a beach. Human death was the smell of what hid in the future, waiting for you.

Robert Crais

#23. We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom.

Dean Koontz

#24. Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs.

Jack Smith

#25. If you don't change course - if you don't have something waiting for you, even if it's just to occupy you until you turn eighteen, you're not going to make it. You need to make a plan for next year.

Jason Schmidt

#26. The greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die.

Saul Williams

#27. The universal mind has all the knowledge, discoveries of the present and the future. It's up to us when we access the available resources which are waiting for us to move forward.

Hina Hashmi

#28. The future held its breath, waiting for Rincewind to walk away. He didn't do this for three reasons. One was alcohol.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It's human nature.

Dan Pearce

#30. We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.

Fuyumi Soryo

#31. I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me.

Audrey Niffenegger

#32. The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

Dan Simmons

#33. To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.

Warren Ellis

#34. Here is my life, this life I never knew I could have, here is the whole world waiting for me, all the possible things. My future is as big as the wild night, the wine-dark sea.

Sarah McCarry

#35. I knew that something profound was coming my way and I was just treading water, waiting for it. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know where it was. I didn't know if it was coming next year or next month. But I knew I was different from my friends in where I was going.

Diana Princess Of Wales

#36. Some companies are already investing in women and thereby betting on a brighter future - for a workforce just waiting to blossom, for emerging economies whose development depends on this new talent, and, of course, for their own financial growth.

Beth Brooke

#37. He's waiting for yu, young queen.'
Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'
The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.

P.C. Cast

#38. Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Kij Johnson

#39. Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect. Human rights aren't lying around waiting to be discovered. They're made, not found.

David Livingstone Smith

#40. The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me.

Douglas Coupland

#41. Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever

John Gummer

#42. We live in a fast-food culture, in which we are led to believe that we need to have everything now; it is a culture that causes people to lose a sense of a future worth waiting for.

Hamza Yusuf

#43. [ ... ] little Belgium once again busy at what she does best, tamely offering her battlefield-ready lowlands to boots, hooves, iron wheels, waiting to be first to go under before a future no one in Europe has the clairvoyance to imagine as anything more than an exercise for clerks.

Thomas Pynchon

#44. By nature, I'm a person who always says that whatever I've done, I could've done better. But I don't dwell on it because I'm waiting for the next time something happens and try to believe that my past experience will have helped to educate me in terms of how I deal with future ones.

David Stern

#45. The future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it.

John Michael Greer

#46. There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well

Sunday Adelaja

#47. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

#48. I know you don't want to be me. But I'd hate for you to ever feel like you're in my shadow. You're not and you never will be. You are awesome, and there is some kind of amazing future waiting for you.

Gwenda Bond

#49. I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future ... without having to wait for others to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

#50. It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.

W.G. Sebald

#51. The opportunity to completely become someone else and inhabit them is something that has always fascinated me greatly as an actor. With a bit of fortune, a few more of those opportunities will lie waiting for me in the future.

Adhir Kalyan

#52. You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

Dirk Kempthorne

#53. Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately to realize that Americans are definitely believing in and planning for the future, despite the fact that they elected Ronald Reagan twice.

Roseanne Barr

#54. We keep waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right now, and you'll have an amazing life.

Barrie Davenport

#55. Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.

Lorraine Hansberry

#56. Humanity does not know where to go because no one is waiting for it: not even God.

Antonio Porchia

#57. We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Vernon Howard

#58. My favourite place is at home with my family. My career is really raising my children. I'm still waiting for clarity on the future.

Withered Hand

#59. Take care how you place your moccasins upon the Earth, step with care, for the faces of the future generations are looking up from the Earth waiting their turn for life.

Wilma Mankiller

#60. It's exciting to take control of your future instead of waiting for the phone to ring,

Jennifer Westfeldt

#61. You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#62. He's waiting. He's still waiting. He's given up everything for me. His entire life. His future. Everything, because he wants to keep me safe. Because he believes, in his heart, that he's my purpose and I'm his.

Cynthia Hand

#63. The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#64. There are too many over-fed, under-motivated Christians hiding behind the excuse that God has not spoken to them. They are waiting to hear voices or see dreams - all the while living to make money, to provide for their future, to dress well and have fun.

Floyd McClung

#65. Deep in my heart I know my future soul mate is not waiting for me online.

Liz Tuccillo

#66. A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for
the Revolution.

Elie Wiesel

#67. Theatre is a form of knowledge; it should and can also be a means of transforming society. Theatre can help us build our future, rather than just waiting for it.

Augusto Boal

#68. We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.

Ray Bradbury

#69. She has been standing in the future for years, waiting for the rest of us to catch up. But

Margot Lee Shetterly

#70. Too many marketers assume that future will hold back and wait until they're ready for it. It won't.

Faith Popcorn

#71. The future is not there waiting for us. We create it by the power of imagination.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#72. I am grateful to God for all the good and bad that has given me, Without reproach the past, without waiting in the future I continue, just living in the moment makes me completely happy!

Ebelsain Villegas

#73. Ive been waiting for this moment,
The one where looking back doesn't seem fascinating anymore & looking forward doesn't seem to be the greatest seek, I am so darn content with creating and living right now that there honestly isn't any room left for the ordinary.

Nikki Rowe

#74. Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

Hun Sen