Waiting Quotes

6770 Waiting quotes by 3856 unique authors

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now,… — Unknown Author
If then you are wise, you will show yourself rather as a reservoir than as a canal. For a canal spreads abroad water as it… — Bernard of Clairvaux
All's well in the end, if you've only the patience to wait. — Francois Rabelais
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we… — Dinaw Mengestu
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte… — Dinaw Mengestu
I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead. — Imogen Cunningham
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. — Edward Abbey
I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am… — Edward Abbey
You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do. — George Jones
It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog. — Georgia O'Keeffe
A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits. — Terry Pratchett
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you… — Arthur C. Clarke
You always think, 'Oh, if only I had a little chalet in the mountains! How great that would be and I'd do all this writing'… — Margaret Atwood
I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a… — Margaret Atwood
I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy… — Ray Bradbury
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from the mosses, seeping… — John Hay
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting… — William Eggleston
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,… — Daniel Defoe
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to… — V.S. Naipaul
Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to… — B.F. Skinner
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in… — Mark Van Doren
I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems… — Jacques Maritain
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For… — Michel Foucault
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… — Marquis de Sade

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