Waiting Quotes - page 5

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. (Cesare Pavese)
I was quite advanced when I was at school, and when I left school it seemed that all these really oafish clods from school were making tremendous progress and had wonderfully large cars and lots of money, and I seemed to be constantly waiting for a bus that never came. View quote
Morrissey
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth. View quote
Brigham Young
I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. View quote
Willie Nelson
Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before. View quote
George W. Bush
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised. View quote
E. O. Wilson
One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully. View quote
Arthur Sullivan
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time. View quote
Kenan Evren
Folks, tomorrow America will get to hear those four words we've been waiting for: "Former president George Bush." View quote
Jay Leno
Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice. View quote
Elaine Paige
Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker. View quote
Joan Robinson
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? View quote
Anne Tyler
I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don't know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I'm waiting for the returns to come in. View quote
Gracie Allen
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it's an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole. View quote
Eudora Welty
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. (Matthew Arnold)
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. View quote
Lee Iacocca
In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. View quote
Anne Lamott
Thousands of alienated young Muslims, most of them born and bred here but who regard themselves as an army within, are waiting for an opportunity to help to destroy the society that sustains them. View quote
Melanie Phillips
I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time. View quote
Fred Thompson