Waiting Quotes

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait.

Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?

I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.

I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

One of the most valuable things you can do to create higher levels of trust is to trust others more. Don't wait for them to prove themselves to you. Trust them.

Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

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.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.

The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.

I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

There is a massive economic opportunity out there to be taken without waiting for government legislation.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available all the time!

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

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.

When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have a bad one, it's always lurking there, waiting for the right cues and rewards.

Grown-up people can wait.

If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!