Waiting For Something Quotes

#1. I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,' she said. 'And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse - to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.

Tracy Chevalier

#2. If you are standing in one place waiting for something to change, you may be there for a while. You've got to move. Step up and take a swing. Make something happen

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#3. It had been, for both of our lives. Frantic action, then months or even years waiting for something to happen.

Ann Leckie

#4. Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

Henry Tizard

#5. Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

#6. I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

Lauren Oliver

#7. I like that she doesn't hover around me, just waiting for something to break off that she could scoop up and glue back into place.

Angela Wolbert

#8. You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

Rachel Kushner

#9. You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. We're waiting for something to change into something worth waiting for

Michael Tolcher

#11. Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

Sara Zarr

#12. And it seems to me that everyone is like me - they're all afraid of the slightest movement ... Everyone's sitting all closed up in his own glass cage waiting for something.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#13. I'm still waiting for something, searching for something I cannot describe."
"It's called true love. Most people never find it.

Destin Bays

#14. We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters 'cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

Jenji Kohan

#15. The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved

Conor Oberst

#16. The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

Andy Warhol

#17. Waiting for something horrible to happen is almost more draining than it actually happening.

Erin Kelly

#18. As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy - happiness will never come.

Bryant McGill

#19. She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Marguerite Duras

#20. In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.

Robert Goolrick

#21. With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Pierce Brosnan

#22. I stood there, like always, like forever it seemed, in the middle of the road waiting for something or someone to retrieve me, God or a parent or my husband or any of those things or people or ideas or words that by their definition promised love.

Miriam Toews

#23. I feel as if I'm waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

Kate Atkinson

#24. An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

Christine Hassler

#25. Waiting for something to fall into your lap is a good way to get goosed

Josh Stern

#26. We're all waiting for something.

Frank Warren

#27. Perhaps I'm tired of waiting for something I may never find.

Maya Banks

#28. He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn't even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#29. The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.

Stormie O'martian

#30. I kept waiting for something to happen, which isn't how life works. In closed environments, everything just repeats.

Kiera Cass

#31. But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.

John Lone

#32. Nights like this," someone had told him, not so long ago, "feel like the world's waiting for something." He was sure, in hindsight, that on that night on a back step with a shared bottle of grocery store Pinot Noir, the girl beside him had wanted the two of them to be that something special.

Lauren Gilley

#33. And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#34. There is a sense that we are waiting for something, that however wonderful something is, there is something else waiting to tempt us; however perfect someone is, someone else might be better, more suitable, more fun, better in bed. Whatever road you chose you may just have easily chosen another.

Chloe Thurlow

#35. Who doesn't love Game of Thrones? Sons of Anarchy is funny and thug-ish. I love Shameless. I just sit with my hat tipped, waiting for something to happen, more than going out after the shows.

Gavin Rossdale

#36. Perhaps there is no agony worse than the tedium I experienced waiting for Something to Happen.

Lance Loud

#37. Fuck this.
Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.

David Levithan

#38. Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Ann Brashares

#39. People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Winona Ryder

#40. Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

Donald Miller

#41. Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen.
And that better thing is us.

Scott Westerfeld

#42. But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

Tammara Webber

#43. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.

Jodee Blanco

#44. I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

Wally Schirra

#45. She wasn't going to sit and wait. She was done waiting, because you could spend your whole life waiting for something to happen. Something big. You could wait and wait, and even if something big happened, even if it finally happened - it didn't change anything.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#46. Elaine sat on the breezeway in an old yellow nightgown of her mother's waiting for something to happen.' [ ... ] I sat like that for about an hour, trying to think what would come next, and in my mind, the barefoot doll in her mother's old yellow nightgown sat and stared into space as well.

Sylvia Plath

#47. Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?

Andrei Platonov

#48. You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#49. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

E.B. White

#50. Life is just one long day separated into sections by sleep. Life never stops happening until you are dead. So whatever happens-love, grief, hate, shame- never disappears. It just gets easier to live with. It just scabs over, waiting for something else significant to happen.

Sunshine O'Donnell

#51. What we are is what we receive. It is not about waiting for something outside ourselves to change - we must actively be the change if we wish to see the result.

Alaric Hutchinson

#52. He did his thing, and I did mine. Mine involved standing there with a sword in a bin liner waiting for something to try and kill us. Nothing did.

Alexis Hall

#53. The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

A.A. Milne

#54. There's the waiting for something you don't know is coming. You don't even know what it is exactly, but you're hoping for it. You're imagining and living your life for it. That's the kind of waiting that makes a fist in your heart.

Martine Murray

#55. I, for one, don't forget a thing. I just sit around waiting for something worse.

Natasha Friend

#56. Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

Joe Abercrombie

#57. Don't spend your days sitting around waiting for something to happen. Get outside and make it happen!Live like a warrior, be at one with nature, fearless in the moment....because this moment will never happen again so don't waste it!

Karen Gibbs

#58. This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular.
Just someone who wanted me.
Not sex.
But me.

Diana Peterfreund

#59. Everybody is waiting for something whether it is in the short or long term.

Steven Redhead

#60. It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

Michael Cera

#61. I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

#62. Chewbacca's back home, looking for his family. Luke's searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo's got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He's like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.

Chuck Wendig

#63. Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#64. Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

David Deida

#65. Time moves slowly when you're waiting for something good

Victoria Aveyard

#66. There are two ways of approaching your time on this planet: one is to sit around waiting for something to happen that will make sense of your existence, and the other is to get out there and find purpose for yourself.

Mariella Frostrup

#67. We already live in the futureit's not like we're waiting for something to happenit's just a matter of doing it.

Bre Pettis

#68. I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.

Zach Braff

#69. Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.

Jonathan Stroud

#70. The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

Haruki Murakami

#71. Art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

Margaret Atwood

#72. We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

Leo Booth

#73. 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

#74. She is my mare and my best friend, and I keep waiting for something bad to happen to her, because I love her too much.

Maggie Stiefvater

#75. She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

Laura Jacobs

#76. Time was as fluid as a river. Waiting for something exciting made time crawl on its knees, and working on deadline made time sprint.

Karen McQuestion

#77. 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

#78. When I am fighting I am keeping my mind empty for any expectations. I am waiting for something unique, completely new.

Rickson Gracie

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Robert Genn

#83. I can't remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It's like, I'll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

Richard Gere

#84. I have this feeling like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what

Jennifer Niven

#85. The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

Mary Ellen Mark

#86. Python is much more like a dog, loving you unconditionally, having a few key words that it understands, looking you with a sweet look on its face (), and waiting for you to say something it understands.

Charles Severance

#87. You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Cesare Pavese

#88. The desert wears ... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting
but waiting for what?

Edward Abbey

#89. Meeting Hettie again made him achingly conscious once more of the irrefutable nature of his obsession with her. Obsession - or love? Or was it something more unhealthy - a kind of craving, an addiction?

William Boyd

#90. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

#91. The indie world changed when the economy went south. I was frustrated with doing something, then waiting for it to come out, and sometimes it never did, or would just play in New York for 50 people. So I really wanted to try something else.

Jeff Daniels

#92. Joy was something she willed herself to show us, something she raised from deep inside herself as a promise for what could be. Now her life seemed to have opened up into it as if it had been waiting for her. (215)

Andre Dubus III

#93. Don't wait for someone to enable you to make something.

Desiree Akhavan

#94. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.

Kathleen Winter

#95. He is watching me, waiting for me to say something, to

Paula Hawkins

#96. I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

Sarah Paulson

#97. I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.

J.J. Abrams

#98. From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

#99. But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

N. T. Wright

#100. That's fine until Ethan's sitting in his room waiting for his nightly booty call. When you're a no-show, and he thinks that we're out on the town, he's going to think something happened to us and get everyone all freaked out.

Samantha Chase