Top 100 Waits Quotes
#1. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Ezra Pound
#2. Deep blackness waits outside;
a veiled inferno it attempts to hide.
We see no more than dark clouds growing,
but set inside, a fire is glowing.
Craig Froman
#3. Love doesn't come with any random man coming in your apartment. It comes with the right person at the right time."
"Geez. You sound like a grandma. What are you going to say next? True love waits?
Shyrill Silversong
#4. It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.
Robert Farrar Capon
#8. A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau
#9. To those who will see, the world waits.
Libba Bray
#10. He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#11. Success is like a seed, it waits for the right conditions that will allow it to grow.
Auliq Ice
#12. Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.
Paula Rinehart
#13. Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.
Charles Spurgeon
#14. Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!
Joyce Meyer
#15. You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.
John Steinbeck
#16. Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.
Bill Bradley
#17. A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.
E.B. White
#18. Tedium is the worst pain. the mind lays out the world in blocks, and the hushed blood waits for revenge. all order, i've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits.
John Gardner
#19. The world waits to see in those who claim to follow Jesus a passion for the only One who matters.
Robbie Symons
#20. Everything you want waits on the other side of fear.
Lisa Wingate
#21. As E.B. White said, "A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
Morgan Gist MacDonald
#22. We are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it.
Will Rogers
#23. If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.
Paulo Coelho
#24. I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.
Jakob Dylan
#25. I'm having too much fun declaring & demonstrating the Kingdom of God, it's okay if He waits till he returns!!!."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#26. Perhaps death is all that waits for me across the great waters, but better to know death than to choose fear of the unknown.
Cora Carmack
#28. Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me.
Dean Koontz
#29. The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
George Eliot
#30. The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.
Joseph Parker
#31. Whatever you want, love, I'll give to you even if it means I'm made to crawl through foxholes and bodies and bullets to do it. You are the reason I fight this war. You are the victory that waits me on the other side of the gunpowder.
Eden Butler
#32. BEYOND THE MIST, the darkness and shadow, he waits, reaching out through a veil of gossamer threads - 'your
future,' he whispers, 'your destiny'.
Charlotte Featherstone
#33. For lawless joys a bitter ending waits.
Pindar
#34. The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.
Leonard Peikoff
#35. A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.
Mark Twain
#36. Now if you'll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.
Rachel Vincent
#37. If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
James Russell Lowell
#38. Layken, you're dead!" Kel shouts, through the open window as he thrusts his imaginary sword into my neck. He waits for me to slump over, but I just roll my eyes at him. "I stabbed you. You're supposed to die!" he says.
"Believe me, I'm already dead.
Colleen Hoover
#39. Vengeance only walks a circle. From blood, back to blood. Death waits for us all. You can follow your path to her bent under a burden of rage. I did, for many years. You can let it poison you.
Joe Abercrombie
#40. I've covered so much Tom Waits. He's one of my favorite writers. I have a real affinity to how he writes.
Bob Seger
#41. You know, the truth isn't hard to find, if you're willing to get your hands dirty. Truth waits just under the surface for any man brave enough to scrape a little dirt away. But most people are too afraid or too lazy to get dirty. They're afraid to ask the right questions. The hard questions.
Greg Iles
#42. Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes.
Kate McGahan
#43. A man who does not ask to much become the promise of his land. His marriage married to his place, he waits and does not stray.
Wendell Berry
#45. And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.
Pablo Neruda
#46. A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.
Keri Hulme
#47. You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#48. The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
Mandy Patinkin
#49. Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death
Anne Frank
#50. A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
Frederick Douglass
#51. One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.
Brittany Howard
#52. We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.
Betsy Otter Thompson
#53. A prison wall was round us both, Two outcast men we were: The world had thrust us from its heart, And God from out His care: And the iron gin that waits for Sin Had caught us in its snare.
Oscar Wilde
#54. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
#55. God waits for our permission and doesn't invade our privacy as we do with others.
Everybody has free choice.
Mabel Katz
#56. 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
#57. Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.
Brandon Boyd
#58. Nothing waits, every thing Sets, every body is Set.
Santosh Kalwar
#59. God is the father who watches and waits for his children, runs out to meet them, embraces them, pleads with them, begs and urges them to come home.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#60. A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
Mary Astor
#61. I settle for a radio station that's currently playing a Tom Waits track. That man has so much gravel in his voice that, if he coughed, you could build a road with the contents of his phlegm.
Mark Capell
#62. MY river runs to thee:
Blue sea, wilt welcome me?
My river waits reply.
Oh sea, look graciously!
I 'll fetch thee brooks
From spotted nooks,
Say, sea,
Take me!
Emily Dickinson
#63. The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.
Pope Benedict XVI
#64. Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what?
Jonathan Stroud
#65. Time waits for no man, but progress waits for man to inact it.
Lauren Oliver
#66. Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me?
"Uh, not be a murderous psycho?"
Very funny.
H.D. Gordon
#67. What men have seen they know; but what shall come hereafter no man before the event can see, 1420 nor what end waits for him.
Sophocles
#68. he sits and waits and hopes that at some
James Frey
#69. The wise man waits and his enemies tear each other to pieces
Lesley Downer
#70. He waits to show Himself in ravishing fulness to the humble of soul and the pure in heart.
A.W. Tozer
#71. Every Conservative desires peace. The threat to peace comes from Communism which has powerful forces ready to attack anywhere. Communism waits for weakness, it leaves strength alone. Britain must therefore be strong, strong in her arms, strong in her faith, strong in her own way of life.
Margaret Thatcher
#72. Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)
Tom Waits
#73. Life goes on. The world spins out another day. The mystery of human life and hope goes on. And here and there, the luminous light that shone out from a carpenter in Nazareth glimmers and flickers in the darkness. And we hope again for what life might become. The soul waits.
John Ortberg
#74. A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.
Mariama Ba
#75. Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
George Matthew Adams
#79. She waits for me at windows and buys me dragons. There are reasons we walk this earth, I'm coming to realize mine.
Kristen Ashley
#80. Sometimes the world sits at a corner and waits for you to fail! Surprise the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. She waits to see how I take this. I have no idea how I take this.
Patrick Ness
#82. In every day waits fortune like a seed ready to sprout.
Sharon Duerst
#83. The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.
Jessie Burton
#84. Patiently, hopefully, actively we are waiting for Jesus. And yet here is the astonishing twist: As we wait for our Lord and the bodily resurrection yet to come for the departed, the world waits for us. As we long for God, the world is longing for God in us.
Jonathan Martin
#85. Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
Alfred Polgar
#86. Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
#87. There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
S. N. Behrman
#88. Hail the day that sees Him rise,
Ravished from our wistful eyes!
Christ, awhile to mortals given,
Re-ascends His native heaven.
There the glorious triumph waits,
Lift your heads, eternal gates!
Wide unfold the radiant scene,
Take the King of glory in!
Charles Wesley
#89. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.
Herbert Mason
#90. Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
Madeline Kahn
#91. 5 I j wait for the LORD, k my soul waits, and l in his word I hope; 6 my soul m waits for the Lord more than n watchmen for o the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
Anonymous
#92. If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.
Srinivas Shenoy
#93. Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
Dean Koontz
#94. Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
Booker T. Washington
#95. God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#96. Time is a watchful adversary, who waits enduringly for that merciless hour, hurrying to work the hands of separation.
Kelly Vang
#97. Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#98. Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.
Lauren Oliver
#99. keeps his tone soothingly soft, the mellow tones of a psychiatric nurse, as he informs me that I will have to give a speech. Then he waits for me to freak out. This speech is not your
Shonda Rhimes
#100. You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.
Anthony Doerr
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