Waiting Quotes

The city is all right. To live in one Is to be civilized, stay up and read Or sing and dance all night and see sunrise By waiting up instead of getting up.

The world is like a fertile field that's waiting to be harvested. The seeds have been planted, and what I do is go out and help plant more seeds and harvest them.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.

You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.

Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

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

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.

While we wait for life, life passes

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.

AMPLE make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress straight, Be its pillow round; Let no sunrise’ yellow noise Interrupt this ground.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or struggle a little bit to get.

Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.

Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.

I'm a bull on Berkshire Hathaway. There may be some considerable waiting, but I think there are some good days ahead.

Stop being a victim and waiting for somebody else to open up an opportunity for you!

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

We are always waiting for the perfect brief from the perfect client. It almost never happens [...] Whatever is on your desk right now, that's the one. Make it the best you possibly can.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

Put off finish as it takes a lifetime - wait until later to try to finish things - make a lot of starts.

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

You win one and then you win another. You feel more comfortable and more confident, and it snowballs. You can't wait to get to the next hole and play better.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.