Waiting Quotes - Page 47

Don't wait to buy land, buy land and wait.

If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I ever met anyone new at an intersection? No, but I like the idea of it. I like cities because if you're stopping on the corner to wait for a light to change, there's the possibility that you and somebody else can talk. And if you and that somebody else start to talk, then you can start to argue, and if you start to argue, you might start a revolution.

Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.

If you can not arrive in daylight, then stand off well clear, and wait until dawn. After all, that's one of the things God made boats for- to wait in.

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

Everything you need to know is right there inside, waiting for you to tap in and discover it, and then hopefully do something about it.

Don't wait to find solid ground. Dance in emptiness.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses.

Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just the right length: beginning, middle, end, a story unfolding.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.

Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

Not waiting for someone to give you what you can give yourself.

Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.