Waiting Quotes

And I think if the president's made a mistake here, it's this laid-back kind of approach where he's waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Some people say it's a political strategy. No matter what it is, it's not effective in solving problems.
Chris Christie

Someone, Political, Made

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant

Yourself, Book, Reading

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
Joss Whedon

Trust, Down, Anymore

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.
Anne Lamott

Work, Ways, Whistle

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Long, Around

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.
Danny Boyle

Work, Great, Whatever

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
Clara Barton

Strong, Help, Enough

Waiting makes me restless. When I'm ready, I'm ready.
Reba McEntire

Makes, Ready, Restless

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
King Abdullah II

Time, Fear, Off

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
James Dobson

Leadership, Women, Assume

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
Salma Hayek

Give, Through, Keep

The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
Joni Mitchell

While, Almost, Daughter

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
Elizabeth Warren

School, Married, Public

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
Robert Falcon Scott

Patience, Long, Trying

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Universe, Grow, Full

I was really nervous, intimidated by the whole thing-all the people and all the buzzing, and all the sitting around waiting. I felt really small in this huge place.
Kate Moss

Small, Place, Around

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
John Perry Barlow

Moral, Until, Actually

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.
Amy Winehouse

Bad, Happen, Song

I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
Vera Wang

Real, May, Fashion

My school was six miles away from where I lived on the farm. I had to walk and run, there and back every day, through gorges and over rivers. If I was late, there was a very big stick waiting for me.
Haile Gebrselassie

School, Through, Big

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Time, Evil, Around

Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
Jodi Picoult

Work, Job, Writing

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
Sally Ride

Happen, Big, Getting

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
Richard Holloway

God, Strength, Children

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
Ryan Gosling

Good, Old, Guys

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
Reba McEntire

Life, Waste, Dust

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.
Lenny Kravitz

Person, Different, Study

Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.
Eliot Spitzer

Often, Few, Desire

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
Christian Bale

Done, Different, Before

Go forth from our holy land and go back to your families who are waiting for you impatiently, that you and we, as well, lead a peaceful life together.
Muqtada al Sadr

Life, Together, Holy

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