Wait Quotes

4683 Wait quotes by 2807 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions. — Rick Riordan
Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that! — Anne Rice
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
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
I have read for countless people on innumerable subjects and the most difficult thing to understand within the cards is always the timing. I knew… — Erin Morgenstern
I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked… — Nalini Singh
Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able… — Hermann Hesse
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait… — Natalie Goldberg
He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one… — Cecelia Ahern
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait… — Fannie Flagg
How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not… — Kiersten White
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. — Unknown Author

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