Top 100 Waiting For Quotes
#1. What happens from here on out is unknown territory for anybody. There's no map. We don't find out what's waiting for us around the next corner until we turn it. I have no idea.
Haruki Murakami
#2. It does not matter the number of lives you have led, if deep within, you still feel that you are waiting for your actual life to begin.
Srividya Srinivasan
#3. My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.
Bette Midler
#4. We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now.
Jean-Michel Cousteau
#5. It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian
#6. Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.
Robert Genn
#7. Not one person from the music world has ever come with - as if I could get a rock'n'roller up at four in the morning to play golf - but that's fine. I have way too much going on to sit around waiting for tee time at two in the afternoon.
Buzz Osborne
#8. I believe in my heart that the other place is waiting for those of you who are brave enough to make the journey,
Erin Hunter
#9. Then why flounder around waiting for good business? Get the costs down by better management. Get the prices down to the buying power.
Henry Ford
#10. Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces.
Hervey Allen
#11. Why am I doing this all over again? Waiting for him to choose me.
Abby McDonald
#12. Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
Brendan Gleeson
#13. I was making pie.
I didn't usually make pie, but I was waiting for the bread to rise so I could knead it again. I'd woken up with a thirst for violence. Cutting the butter into the flour for pie crust was almost as good as kneading bread.
Penny Reid
#14. The problem, says my sister, Kelly, is not that I can't get over Naomi - it's that I refuse to.... Loving Naomi and waiting for her to come back to me - it's not a stalker thing, but more like a personal mission. A job.
David Levithan
#15. Always waiting, waiting to go up to the front line, waiting in the trenches with the whizzbags and shells bursting all around you, waiting for the whistle to send you out over the top and across No-Man's-Land, waiting for the bullet that had name on it.
Michael Morpurgo
#16. I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#17. I'm constantly reminding myself that the world owes us nothing. We have to make our way and we have to work hard, persevere and make our own way in the world because the world isn't waiting for us, so let's let the world know we are here.
Tim Gunn
#18. That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.
Kristin Hannah
#19. She glanced over her shoulder as she made her way into the restaurant, as though to make sure I was still waiting for her.
You crazy girl, don't you know I'd wait for you forever?
A Meredith Walters
#20. Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.
A.A. Milne
#21. My whole life, I was waiting for someone to save me, and he did. I knew in that moment that I would never be unloved, I would never be abandoned, and I would never be left to fight the monsters alone.
E.K. Blair
#22. Maybe Obama was not even the person he was waiting for.
Maureen Dowd
#23. Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#24. As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.
Don Ward
#25. Frugal is an old-fashioned, mostly unused word and frugality is is an old-fashioned mostly unused virtue that has been waiting for hard times to come back. The Scots have another word for it - canny.
Keith Smith, Hard Times Handbook, 1984
Keith Smith
#26. Mara is the one I never knew I was waiting for, and as long as she'll have me, I will never let her go.
Michelle Hodkin
#27. We seem to somewhat be behind an eight ball, and what I mean by that is we're constantly waiting for a call from Neil as to whether he wants to do CSNY.
Graham Nash
#28. The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
Alan Brien
#29. In a weird way, I'm always going to ground myself. I'm an insecure kind of pessimist, but I'm always kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Damien Chazelle
#30. The moonlight covered the tombstones with an ethereal glow, and the statues
above the tombs stood like silent guards waiting for something to happen.
Alan Kinross
#31. I'm not waiting for you to fuck up." Adam paused. "Just because you can't trust everyone doesn't mean you can't trust anyone.
Brigid Kemmerer
#32. 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
#33. So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life.
Nina Conti
#34. We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we've got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#35. That's when I began drinking coffee. I was hung up on every little thing. I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home. Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#36. I watch him for a moment, waiting for him to expose those brilliant eyes to the world again. But he doesn't. After a while, I hear his breathing grow steady and see his head droop, and I know he's fallen asleep. I
Marie Lu
#37. The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.
Leonard Ravenhill
#38. Nothing," said he in the mirror, "I am only waiting. I am waiting for death."
"Where is death then?"
"Coming," said the other.
Hermann Hesse
#39. I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself.
E. Lockhart
#40. Can't you understand that I'd much rather help catch him that sit around waiting for him to pounce?
Robert Galbraith
#41. The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.
Travis Barker
#42. I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Henry Scott Holland
#43. Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.
Markus Zusak
#44. I've been waiting for this for so long
something new, life after high school.
Nina LaCour
#45. I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.
David Edelstein
#46. Bliss, wait one second."
I took my time packing up my stuff, waiting for everyone else to leave the computer lab.
When we were alone I asked, "What's up?"
He smiled, "Nothing."
Then he pressed me into the computer table behind me and kissed me.
Cora Carmack
#47. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Austin O'Malley
#48. You can't live life waiting for things to go wrong, because then you're not really living. Everyone is going to die. That is part of the journey of living. What matters most is living each day you do have like it might be yout last.
Missy Johnson
#49. When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia
#50. I'm tired of her diving deep into nothing and leaving me on the surface. Waiting for her to come back up for air.
Julie Cantrell
#51. Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.
Osho
#52. And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter ... and how could I not, when I had been waiting for them to step out of the pages of the books I loved; when I knew them so well, read them inside out and into myself?
Justine Picardie
#53. Live is like a box of chocolates, we are all just waiting for a hungry hand to come down and grab us and eat us
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Sunshine
#54. I feel claimed and bonded to him like animals do. I feel like I've already been caught and trapped and he's merely priming me, leaving me to simmer in my juices, anxiously waiting for the moment when he takes his first bite of me.
Katy Evans
#55. However it happened, you are my wife and I am grateful. I look at you and I know you were worth waiting for.
- Sebastian Stanhope
Diana Quincy
#56. You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone ... waiting for something I could never give you.
Lucy Christopher
#57. Revenge is the capitalism of the poor: conserve the original wound, defer immediate gratification, fatten the first insult with new insults, invest and reinvest spite, and ke waiting for the perfect moment to strike back.
Aravind Adiga
#58. Being honest about being bullied in school and my bipolar was not so much of a 'do I or don't I?'; it was waiting for the right time. Even before I knew what making a mark on the world meant, I knew I wanted to make a difference.
Ruby Rose
#59. I don't have a story," I said. "I'm still waiting for one.
Judy Blundell
#60. 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
#61. One theory here: the deanery is annoyed with our requests for parity and, weary of waiting for us to retire, has decided to kill us. Let the academic year begin!
Julie Schumacher
#62. I don't ravish women, if that's what you're thinking," he said.
"Oh, no," she said. "I had supposed that women stood in line waiting for you to relieve them of their virtue.
Loretta Chase
#63. Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.
Minor White
#64. Not to the curious or impatient soulThat in the start, demands the end be shown,And at each step, stops waiting for a sign;But to the tireless toiler toward the goal,Shall the great miracles of God be knownAnd life revealed, immortal and divine.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#65. When I got here, I did get bored ... I got more and more nervous here too, not knowing anybody. And I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. It's the one thing I can't do.
John Green
#67. He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they too are important, special, and full of light.
Emily Page
#68. When you're here, an i in the Ocean, you're no longer waiting for something to happen or to change. When you're here you have what you seek. Your heart opens to the gift you receive, that you are.
Jean-Pierre Weill
#69. It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
Sophie Kinsella
#70. Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.
Robin Sharma
#71. Either you're with me or you're against me. I can't afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.
Kyra Dune
#72. We're the only ones left from those withered days. The last two leaves still clinging to the branch waiting to fall. Waiting for the wind to severe us into the sky.
Tan Twan Eng
#74. After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.
Nile Rodgers
#75. The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.
Claudia Rankine
#76. Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
John Lennon
#77. Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.
Gerald Durrell
#78. 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
#79. Why is everyone complaining?" Daisy asked impatiently. "This
is exciting! We get to perform. Do you know how long I have been
waiting for this day?"
"Unfortunately, yes," Sarah said flatly.
"About as long as I have been dreading it," Iris muttered.
Julia Quinn
#80. I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
Lucy Lawless
#81. When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.
Rickson Gracie
#82. So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me to keep writing.
Joan Armatrading
#84. We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
#85. Tomorrow is in the wings waiting for you to sound her entrance fanfare.
Duke Ellington
#86. Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?
Tony Parsons
#87. Perhaps one day, you'll become a man and sail the oceans too. Perhaps you'll find buried treasure and discover new lands of your own. The world lays waiting for your adventures too and we can only dream of what they may be.
Maxwell Grantly
#88. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
#89. I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.
Seanan McGuire
#90. The future held its breath, waiting for Rincewind to walk away. He didn't do this for three reasons. One was alcohol.
Terry Pratchett
#91. He'd meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He'd also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.
Richard Russo
#92. Everyone is waiting for someone to change the world and no one seems to be doing much. Now what if everyone started thinking that someone who can change the world is me? This simple thinking will make all the difference to change our world.
Jeroninio Almeida
#93. Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.
Martin Luther
#94. Well, what are we waiting for? Someone call the backhoe and let's go dig up a dead guy.
John L. French
#95. Wherever you go
Whatever you do
I will be right here waiting for you
Whatever it takes
Or how my heart breaks
I will be right here waiting for you
Richard Marx
#96. When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.
Marilynne Robinson
#97. she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it.
Louise Penny
#98. Life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning do dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
#99. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
Bill Brandt
#100. I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
Isabel Allende
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