Waiting Quotes - Page 35

We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

I try to wait until things set up just right before I take a trade. Then, when I'm ready to take the trade, I slowly count to ten before I pick up the phone. It's better to have the wrong idea and good timing than the right idea and bad timing.

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

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.

Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

I do a lot of things wrong. I lose my temper, and I hate waiting in line, but do I take drugs? No.

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

Never wait for trouble.

Just wait and see, Charlie Brown. I'll see the Great Pumpkin. I'll SEE the Great Pumpkin! Just you wait, Charlie Brown. The Great Pumpkin will appear and I'll be waiting for him.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.