Waiting It Quotes

#1. No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Diem Brown

#2. When he visited the stables he found Spit also had a welcome waiting. It lasted a full two minutes and Master Rensial stated confidently it was the longest fart he had ever heard a horse produce.

Anthony Ryan

#3. Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.

Sharon Weil

#4. Don't keep that money waiting, it get impatient.

Fabolous

#5. All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Alain De Botton

#6. And after ten years of waiting, it was Victor's turn, to get into Eli's head and do some ruining.

V.E Schwab

#7. In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

Sandra Cisneros

#8. To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

James Cameron

#9. I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?

Jerry Seinfeld

#10. Patience isn't simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. Everybody is in the waiting room of life. Yoga is not a waiting. It is a doing, today.

Frederick Lenz

#12. There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#13. But since soup mainly involves tossing everything in a pot and waiting, it's one of my better dishes.

Suzanne Collins

#14. Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

Rumi

#15. Mark my words, Messner: the world is waiting, it's licking its chops, to take your boy away.'" "And my

Philip Roth

#16. So much in L.A. is waiting. It's so irritating. That's what's good about stand-up. You can go away, and you don't have to sit and wait by your phone. But it is very frustrating.

Norm MacDonald

#17. Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

Joshua Waitzkin

#18. She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

D.H. Lawrence

#19. If there is one Christian left who holds out hope that a God honoring, biblically accurate, mainstream Hollywood movie will emerge, I have some advice for you ... stop waiting, it's not going to happen, move on. If you want authentic Scripture, read the Scripture.

William Branks

#20. Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

Claude Monet

#21. I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait.

Theodore Roosevelt

#22. Dropping my head I stare at the carpet, counting to four, waiting.It takes nine long seconds for her to find the courage to crawl around the couch, halting on all fours to stare at my feet, never once looking higher than my knees.

Poppet

#23. Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

Randy Pausch

#24. Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling.

Clayton Kershaw

#25. Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner. Heaven seems to understand such economy.

Edith Stein

#26. If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#27. Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce.

John Gardner

#28. He was waiting for a man with a knife to come out of a doorway at him. All this time, he told me, he had been trying to steal death from her body. By confronting it himself, he would keep it away from her.

Don DeLillo

#29. Are you waiting for the end of the world? It normally coincides with your own.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#30. Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

John Terraine

#31. If you wait till you're very sure, then you'll find yourself doing it, and when you do there'll be an ease.

Frederick Lenz

#32. I think I've been waiting for the big gesture, the one where the guy stands in the rain and declares his love or makes some scene at a football game that ends with the crowd doing the slow clap. It's official. Romantic comedies have ruined me.

Lex Martin

#33. Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

Mao Zedong

#34. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls
are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.

Catherynne M Valente

#35. 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

#36. I know we were kids at Brown. But there's no one I've met before you, or since, who even came close to completing my heart. It's always been there for you, waiting for your love to finn in the nooks and crannies. (Drew)

Eva Charles

#37. Waiting to live life is not worth it. Waiting for someone to figure out how to live with you is not worth waiting for. When you start living your own life, life brings you someone worth being with ...

Sadiqua Hamdan

#38. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone.

Kate Bolick

#40. I'm sitting, waiting to get on the freeway, and I'm waiting my ass off. I look over at the side of the road, and there's a hitchhiker with a sign and it says, 'Pick me up, and you can drive in the carpool lane.' I got to tell you, he was kind of smelly, but he was a good conversationalist.

Doug Benson

#41. There is a future, and I can't wait to get to it

Marilyn Monroe

#42. Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.

Iyanla Vanzant

#43. Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Mason Cooley

#44. God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#45. Hearing this announcement, your soul will mobilize accordingly. It will mobilize ecstatically, in fact, because this is what your soul was born for. (Trust me, your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years.) But

Elizabeth Gilbert

#46. You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

Douglas Coupland

#47. It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of one's friends; but it is doubly hard for an aviator to stay on the ground waiting for just the right moment to go into the air.

Glenn Curtiss

#48. Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

Bob Goff

#49. If you knew you were going to die, wasn't it better to choose the time and place, instead of waiting for fate to drop on you like an anvil?

Jodi Picoult

#50. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Henry David Thoreau

#51. 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

#52. I just remembered that I'm absent minded ... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

Eminem

#53. This is what I have.
The dull hangover of waiting,
the blush of my heart on the damp grass,
the flower-faced moon.
A gull broods on the shore
where a moment ago there were two.
Softly my right hand fondles my left hand
as though it were you.

Mary Oliver

#54. The house didn't feel the same; it wasn't the same. The eeriness of that night permeated the walls and the suffocating warmth trapped in those walls. And I stood there, waiting for my feet to think, to move, knowing that they would decide to do just that. They had come this far.

C.C. Wyatt

#55. Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he'd start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had done together in this room.

Damon Suede

#56. Courage isn't a feeling that
you wait for. Courage is doing when you don't have courage. Courage is
doing it scared.

Jill Briscoe

#57. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

Greg Nickels

#58. At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

Ian McEwan

#59. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#60. But you couldn't enjoy the fact that he was in a good mood, because it was the kind of good mood that was just on the edge of a bad one. They were all waiting for him to cross over ...

Rainbow Rowell

#61. It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Orson Scott Card

#62. Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.

Colbie Caillat

#63. Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.

Billy Campbell

#64. He walked for surely it was as if all his life he had been waiting to get up from his chair.

Rachel Joyce

#65. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!

Stephen Richards

#66. The spirit partly lies in physical body,
the rest of it is still waiting to be refitted.

Toba Beta

#67. I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Paulo Coelho

#68. What if there was somebody waiting to love him? What if there was somebody whom he would love again? Was it possible?

Anonymous

#69. But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.

Neil Gaiman

#70. Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

Deb Caletti

#71. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Conor Oberst

#72. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#73. It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.

Terry Pratchett

#74. 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

#75. At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me

Nicholas Sparks

#76. 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

#77. Lose some valuable things in very different places and wait for a while! If they come back to you, it means that you are living in an honest society and in a very rare one too!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#78. I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

James Marsters

#79. Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

Byron Katie

#80. Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.

Sam Kean

#81. It was the same with time, he thought, and also sorrow. They were both waiting to catch you. And no matter how much you shook your arms at them and hollered, they knew they were bigger. They knew they would get you in the end.

Rachel Joyce

#82. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Terry Pratchett

#83. I've found that often the quality you see in successful people is knowing when to take the initiative, and being quick about it. I've never sat around, waiting for someone to tell me to take charge. I just do it.

R.K. Lilley

#84. The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#85. Don't behave like a cat who is patiently waiting for the right time to attack its prey! For you, right time is now, suitable moment is now; use 'now' because any moment after 'now' is just a theory, it may never exist! Stop being patient, stop behaving like a fixed statue and move now!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so rapidly that only early action-back when you're still somewhat uncertain-stands a chance of being effective, as in catching cancer before it metastasizes.

Joel Garreau

#87. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#88. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

#89. If you wait four or five years between records, it better be a masterpiece, you know? And if you keep putting them out, you're saying, Hey, here's 10 more songs.

Craig Finn

#90. The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.

Lindsey Stirling

#91. Suffering through his classes, the young Igor steeped himself in angst. He would later describe his childhood as 'a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Jonah Lehrer

#92. When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.

Steve Goodier

#93. God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.

Adoniram Judson

#94. I hate beds," she said slowly. "They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It's like lying in a tomb.

Susan Kay

#95. A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.

Alice Oswald

#96. It's harder to score well in a slow round. The tendency is to overthink shots while you're waiting and become mentally exhausted. Instead, chat with your playing partners about anything but golf. Concentrate on each shot for no more than a minute. You'll stay fresh.

Rickie Fowler

#97. I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

David Anders

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

Antonio Porchia

#99. Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.

Steve Maraboli

#100. It was as if her body had lain dormant, waiting for the right man to come along and awaken her to her erotic potential.

Kitty Thomas