Wait Quotes

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He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the… — Jean de la Bruyere
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be… — James Anthony Froude
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. — Charles Caleb Colton
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand,… — Bill Vaughan
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the… — Andy Rooney
I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have… — Ernest Hemingway
And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through… — Henry Timrod
Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft. — Ray Bradbury
I find that people can pass me on the street who've just seen my picture in the paper and they wouldn't recognize me. If they'd… — Tom Lehrer
Movies now, you can watch a trailer for a movie on TV now and you're not sure if it's a video game or a movie.… — Billy Bob Thornton
Perhaps we should wait until his second term begins before carving Barack Obama's face in Mount Rushmore. Is that asking too much? — Ron Fournier
She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because… — Jamie Foxx
I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my… — Pope Francis
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand. — Ace Frehley
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? — Sigmund Freud
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. — R. Buckminster Fuller
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it… — Timothy Geithner

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