Top 96 When You Are Waiting Quotes
#1. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?
Billy Connolly
#2. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
E.B. White
#3. The annoying thing about time is that it takes time...but no amount of it is enough when you are waiting to be sure. Time alone can tell you what will last.
Mil Millington
#4. Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
Thomas Merton
#5. When you are a member of the MLS, you can log in online and see how much a home was originally listed for, how much it sold for, how many days it sat on the market waiting for a buyer,
Katherine Flansburg
#6. I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.
It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.
Brian Andreas
#7. I asked you a question. What are you doing here?"
Resting his elbows on the side of the tub, he smiled lazily. She hated it when he smiled lazily. "Waiting for the bubbles to evaporate," he said.
Sandra Hill
#8. I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
Cynthia Nixon
#9. There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
James Franco
#10. Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may be waiting there.
Rachel Field
#11. Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.
Lisa Mangum
#12. A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
Stephen King
#13. It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
Al Pacino
#14. 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
#15. Writing as a creative art flourishes only when there are no rules. Rules stifle you from entering the silent and forbidden spaces where the core of the story is waiting to be revealed.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#16. There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn.
Ken Kesey
#17. If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.
Tanya Davis
#18. Oh, Van. Don't you know? Home is where your mind goes when the night is black and your heart is hurting. Home is where you go when things are happening that you can't control but wish you could. Home is where the person you love is waiting for you.
Shelley Gray
#19. When you are in troubled and worried and sick at heart
And your plans are upset and your world falls apart,
Remember God's ready and waiting to share
The burden you find much to heavy to bear
So with faith, "Let Go and Let GOD" lead your way
Into a brighter and less troubled day
Helen Steiner Rice
#20. We had sun, but we asked for a rainbow. We called the drizzle, but we got heavy rains! Now it's gone.. We are left with drizzle, waiting the sun light to pass through. When the sun shines tomorrow, only the drizzle is mine.. Rainbow is yours! And I'm deaf and you're blind!
Heshan Udunuwara
#21. You never know when things are going to turn around. Things could turn around tomorrow. That's what I keep waiting for. If you left now, you'd never know.
Amy Kinzer
#22. But it's easy enough to ignore temptations when you are confident that there is someone waiting at home for your return. However, if that person is no longer a certainty, then it becomes harder and harder to escape even the least temptation which comes along.
Andrew James Pritchard
#23. When I say "I fear" - don't let it disturb you, dearest heart. We all fear when we are in waiting-rooms. Yet we must pass beyond them, and if the other can keep calm, it is all the help we can give each other.
Katherine Mansfield
#24. If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s ... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.
Charlie Munger
#25. When things are fantastic, it's hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner.
Penny Reid
#26. Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola
who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.
Chris Abani
#27. When you work, live, love and play without waiting for the next moment, everything you are and encounter flourishes.
Ryan Kurczak
#28. So, I remember when I was a kid, I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late, and, you know, I was like, 'Oh my God, what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.
Vinny Guadagnino
#29. It's moments like these that you wait for not knowing what you
are waiting for, but when they come . . . you know that this is
something you could have waited your life for !
Durjoy Dutta
#30. It is difficult to prove yourself reliable when people are required to wait for you.
Wes Fesler
#31. When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
Aaron Schock
#32. I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.
Jillian Lauren
#33. Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting ... watching ... haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it's already too late.
THE SILENCE
Barry Brickey
#34. 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
#35. But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
Teresa Of Avila
#36. I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn - our country's uniform and to their spouses: when you have finished your service to our nation, you've got 2,000 great American companies ready and waiting to bring you on board
Michelle Obama
#37. When you're standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you're standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don't. I feel like I'm the enemy.
John McAfee
#38. I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're there and you're doing the scene and you're always sort of like, "OK, are they going to cut it? How far are we taking this, or are they going to cold cut?"
Ashton Kutcher
#39. With you i found myself.
You are the one i was waiting for, when i didn't even realize i was waiting.
-dr. Emma Sinclair-
Jill Shalvis
#40. Sometimes it is difficult to see the goodness in your life when you are in turmoil. Just remember that even during a storm, the sun is shining. You may not see it, but it is always there above the clouds, waiting to warm you again.
Karen Lynch
#41. Sometimes you just need to know when a fight is best saved for another day when the odds are more in your favour.
A.J. Darkholme
#42. You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?
Iyanla Vanzant
#43. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
Germany Kent
#44. Confusion sets in when you're not sure if your product or service is bought or sold, or worse, if you are a salesperson just waiting for people to buy.
Seth Godin
#45. 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
#46. A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.
Gloria Steinem
#47. I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Anne Tyler
#48. You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.
Esai Morales
#49. When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#50. Why are you waiting for me?" I asked.
"Because you're worth it."
"You don't know that."
"Yes, I do."
"How?"
"I've been around. I know when something's good."
My throat tightened a little. "What if you're wrong?"
"I'm not wrong.
Nina Lane
#51. Memories are jagged little rocks, sharp little chunks of glass, and your mind is mud. Memories sink into it, and you think they've disappeared. But they haven't. They're just lying there, waiting for a hot day when certain parts of the mud melt and make those blades available to questing feet.
Luke Smitherd
#52. So many times in life we try to protect what we value, but we are doubly blessed when we give it away. Have you given away your love today? Have you shared your faith? If not, what are you waiting for?
Tricia Goyer
#53. Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?
Alan Cohen
#54. I believe in the princess when she says that she'll return to those waiting for her. So i'll wait. It's more painful to wait than to go along on the trip." 'Well, I can't wait.' "Are you that afraid to believe in someone?
CLAMP
#55. Haven't I been worth five years' excellent gossip to you? Are you not all waiting agog to see me seize my sister-in-law by the hair? When I think of it, damn it, I'm a public benefactor.
Dorothy Dunnett
#56. I think when you've had success, publishers and reviewers and readers are willing to let you try something new if you've already proven yourself. They're excited about what you're doing, you have people interested in it, and actually waiting for it. It's empowering.
Lois Lowry
#57. I more than love you, I'm not whole without you. You are life itself to me. When you are gone I'm waiting for you to return so I can start living again.
Ronald Reagan
#58. Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.
Mark Twain
#59. When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.
Shunryu Suzuki
#60. There are major challenges, when it comes to making a film in the Arctic. When you're filming wildlife and that wildlife doesn't necessarily take direction, you can spend a lot of time waiting, where you're debating whether or not you should press the record button because it costs a lot of money.
Greg MacGillivray
#61. When you've reached a certain point in your life, there are people out there waiting to see you fall. but rather than let gravity take you down, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands and fly.
Justin Bieber
#62. Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?
Joel Edgerton
#63. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
Warren Buffett
#64. Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.
Nick Flynn
#65. When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.
Joel Osteen
#66. Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.
Helen Prejean
#67. But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.
Patrick Carman
#68. When you are surrounded by something so big that requires you to change everything about the way you think and see the world, then denial is the natural response. But the longer we wait, the bigger the response required.
Paul Gilding
#69. When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
Eckhart Tolle
#70. Our prayer must be, Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
James MacDonald
#71. When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home ... piece of cake.
James Marsters
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. 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
#76. When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen ... It's small thing, but means a lot ... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen ... it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget ...
Nutan Bajracharya
#77. You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You've already been sentenced. You're just waiting for execution morning to roll around.
Lester Roloff
#78. So the books are waiting. Of this you may be confident: they'll be ready when the whim strikes you.
Alan Jacobs
#79. Which all goes to show that it is hard to hide how you feel, when mirrors are out there everywhere, just waiting to pounce.
Anne Nesbet
#80. I am waiting outside in the darkness making myself ready for when I go in. So I am thinking as many good thing I can think because if you are thinking good thing, nothing bad is happening to you.
Uzodinma Iweala
#81. Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life, happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in NOW.
Annomynous
#82. Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?
Kay Arthur
#83. I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.
Elle King
#84. When we finish up with this planet the insects will take over. You may not think it, seeing all this fair land, but the days of the human race are numbered. The insects are waiting their turn.
Larry McMurtry
#85. when you are surrendering your all to God and if God is taking you somewhere, focus less where He is taking you to, For He will definitely take you somewhere. Only surrender
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#86. I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, That's nice - and when are you going to see me next?
Steven Chu
#87. When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?
Ray Kroc
#89. It's difficult in my position because you are just waiting on injuries and that's often when your opportunity comes at this point into the season, ... You never wish anyone ill health, but that's the reality of the business.
Jesse Palmer
#90. When you are constantly waiting and wanting your declaration is that you are NOT.
Bryant McGill
#91. Life is given to us to be lived...Most of us spend an entire lifetime preparing to live." What is it that you are doing ...LIVING or PREPARING TO LIVE at some point ! Are you waiting for the IF AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS or Are you living NOW ! A thought that changed my life forever !!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#92. INNATE is God in human beings. INNATE is good in human
beings. INNATE cannot be cheated, violated, or tricked. INNATE is always
waiting, ready to communicate with you, and when INNATE is in contact
you are in tune with the Infinite.
B. J. Palmer
#93. I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#94. Tucker: There are beautiful women everywhere, or are you so married you've forgotten?
Ethan: Just not interested. Why go looking when you have the best of everything waiting at home?
Susan Mallery
#95. You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
Dorothea Lange
#96. When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.
Holly Holm
