Quotes of Waiting - somelinesforyou

“ It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait. ”

- Evan Esar

“ To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. ”

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“ The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ”

- Fran Lebowitz

“ Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well, let 'em wait. - ”

- Ethan Allen

“ How much of human life is lost in waiting. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count. ”

- Dr. Robert Anthony

“ It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. ”

- Gregory Corso

“ The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack. ”

- Robert Jordan

“ For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting. ”

- Evan Esar

“ After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ 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 to fast. ”

- Hermann Hesse

“ I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ Everything comes to him who waits — if he waits till it comes. ”

- Evan Esar

“ I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. ”

- Marilynne Robinson

“ As long as I'm livingI'll be waitingAs long as I'm breathingI'll be thereWhenever you call meI'll be waitingWhenever you need meI'll be there. ”

- Lenny Kravitz

“ No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. ”

- Ben Elton

“ Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow — that is patience. ”

- Unknown

“ Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green. ”

- Karen Ireland

“ If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. ”

- Anne Tyler

“ Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance… ”

- Theodor Geisel

“ I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ”

- J. B. Priestley

“ I have always been waiting for something better — sometimes to see the best I had snatched from me. ”

- Dorothy Reed Mendenhall

“ I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime… I would make something happen. ”

- Louis L’Amour

“ If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement. ”

- Ronald Reagan
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