Wait Quotes - page 2

There is no sign of leaf or bud, A hush is over everything - Silent as women wait for love, The world is waiting for the spring. (Sara Teasdale)
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. View quote
Anne Lamott
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. View quote
Jules Renard
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. View quote
Douglas Coupland
If you have time don't wait for time. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. View quote
Sandy Koufax
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. View quote
Jonathan Winters
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. View quote
Anne Frank
To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. (Horace Mann)
Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty - it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. View quote
George Eliot
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. View quote
Bruce Lee
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal woundthat he will never get over it. View quote
Robert Frost
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong. View quote
John von Neumann
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, 'Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.' View quote
Epictetus
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. View quote
Epictetus
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch the buyer hungry and always make him wait). (3) Always take everything back if you possibly can. (William S. Burroughs)
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first. View quote
Steven Tyler
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait. View quote
Maya Angelou
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. View quote
Alice Walker
I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." View quote
Mitch Hedberg