Waiting Quotes

6770 Waiting quotes by 3856 unique authors

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. — Elwyn Brooks White
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it. — Elie Wiesel
Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways… — Joel Osteen
Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play. — Patch Adams
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die. — Nelson Mandela
Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit. — Morgan Llywelyn
Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die. — Robert De Niro
Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is… — Ursula K. Le Guin
You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,… — Annie Dillard
Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures… — Anne Lamott
Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather… — Jane Smiley
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting… — Wilferd Peterson
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll… — James M. Barrie
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing. — Ming-Dao Deng
I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise. — Jason Segel
Chastity is a difficult long term matter, one must wait patiently for it to bear fruit for the happiness of loving kindness which it must… — Pope John Paul II
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry. — Octavio Paz
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up. — John Donne
Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. — Robert Frost
God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the… — Ronald Reagan

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