Waiting Quotes

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Carrie Fisher

Person, Die, Resentment

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
Salma Hayek

Keep, Meet, Balls

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Morris West

Life, Sunshine, Enjoy

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope

Learned, Dance, Six

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
George Harrison

Peace, Yourself, Mind

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Jules Renard

Everything, Action, Ask

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

History, Important, Human

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.
Justin Bieber

Time, Haters, Mistake

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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Long, Perfect, Keep

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
Ville Valo

Love, Best, Heart

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
Tom Stoppard

Life, Whole, Questions

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen

Rain, Someone, Pessimist

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A. A. Milne

Others, Sometimes, Stay

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley

Patience, Before, Learn

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Malachy McCourt

Person, Die, Taking

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno

Time, Tomorrow, Yesterday

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
Dag Hammarskjold

Time, Christmas, Happy

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracian

Great, Luck, While

My advice for girls who are waiting for their Prince Charming is to be open for anything. Be open to new experiences, be open to the idea that it may take longer than you want, but if you're open to meeting new people and new adventures, then love will come along.
Lily Collins

Love, May, Advice

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett

Time, Tomorrow, Keep

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Karl Rahner

God, Hope, Beautiful

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair

Lost, Goal, Perfect

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

Down, Rose, Grand

The Indian race are waiting and praying.
Chief Joseph

Race, Indian, Praying

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Peace, Home, Sad

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
Morihei Ueshiba

Heart, Full, Seeds

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Tyra Banks

Mom, Off, Horse

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner

Great, Business, Dad

You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
Daisy Fuentes

Study, Place, Else

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

Time, Live, Whatever

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