Wait Quotes
4683 quotes by 2807 authors
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I lost everyone I loved," I tell him. I wait for him to look at me, and then I add, "The day I met you.
— Lauren DeStefano
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My heart lifted, and a matching grin curved my lips. He wanted to see me again. Maybe he really did like me after all. I…
— Jennifer Estep
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Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.
— Michael Scott
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I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things,…
— Joanne Greenberg
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We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat…
— Shirley Jackson
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We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion…
— Samuel Beckett
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I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
— C.S. Lewis
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Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never…
— Sarah Dessen
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You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man." "Screw…
— Karen Marie Moning
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You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind,…
— Jean Sasson
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He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges…
— Lauren DeStefano
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Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened…
— Beverly Cleary
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I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
— Rick Riordan
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Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
— Anne Rice
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I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.
— Steve Martin
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Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight.…
— John Green
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