Waiting Quotes

Management must take the lead in making obsolete its own products and services rather than waiting for a competitor to do so.

I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

We need to talk about what we are going to do and see and decide. We'll have to wait and see.

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Anyone who waits for someone else to make a change automatically becomes the follower.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Is it better that we manage population growth responsibly or should we to wait for nature to cull our numbers?

Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

Miles above the Earth we know , Fancy's rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket's light.

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

The future can always wait so long as the here-and-now is rapturous.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

I've been waiting a long to to meet you

I don't know where you have to go or what you have to do, but I'll wait for you, John. Every bit of my heart belongs to you, whether you ask for it or not.

Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.

God understands us, He waits for us. He doesn't get tired of forgiving us. If we repent and go to him with a truly open heart.

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

Cassandra, when you want to speak to me, you should say 'Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson.' Then wait until you get my attention." "Excuse me, Mrs. Johnson. Do I have your attention now?

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

For every person is a gaping space waiting to be filled with God.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it?

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world.

It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?

The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

bite me. oh wait, you can't from way out there." - eve

Yeah, I know. Terror Aerobics. Just wait until they get it at the gym. It'll be bigge than pilates. --Eve

I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

So, we wait until tomorrow night, and when you say the word, I cross over and haul you both out. Right? That's it?" "With any luck, yes." Luck? We were depending on luck? Nash is so screwed.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

When you're a kid, you think you can jump out the window and be okay. But when you get older, you think, "Wait a minute - I can't fly!"

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...