Waiting Quotes - Page 27

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination or prediction. This, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.

If you want a recipe for relationship failure, just wait for the other person to change first.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

Are you sulking?” “Me? No. I don’t sulk.” “You sound like you’re sulking.” “I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

To be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.

You and I can turn and look at the silent river and wait. We know the current is there, hidden; and there are comings and goings from miles away that hold the stillness exactly before us. What the river says, that is what I say.

It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll never forget: 'ALWAYS...' no, wait-- 'NEVER...' no, wait, it was 'ALWAYS carry a litter bag in your car. It doesn't take up much room, and if it gets full, you can toss it out the window.'

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

I had been acting since I was seven years old, but I had a combination of things happen at about the same time. 'Austin Powers' came out on DVD, I got a series regular gig on 'Buffy' and 'Can't Hardly Wait' came out.

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.

Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being stretched -- if it gets pulled too far, eventually it will snap back. As a short-term trader, I try to wait until the rubber band is stretched to its extreme point.

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other