Waiting Quotes - Page 49

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. I have bought this wonderful machine — a computer ... it seems to me to be an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy.

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

We have no acceptable theory of evolution at the present time. There is none; and I cannot accept the theory that I teach to my students each year. Let me explain. I teach the synthetic theory known as the neo-Darwinian one, for one reason only; not because it's good, we know that it is bad, but because there isn't any other. Whilst waiting to find something better you are taught something which is known to be inexact.

I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.

If some of these answers seem radical or far-fetched today, then I say wait until tomorrow. Soon it will be abundantly clear that it is business as usual that is utopian, whereas creating something very new and different is a practical necessity.

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Marriage is like a barbecue. When you light a barbecue, it's very exciting to see the flames. That's lovely, but you have to wait until the flames have died down. Everything that you want from a barbecue happens on the hot embers. You can't cook on those flames.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

The slave child had no thought for the morrow; but there came that blight, which too surely waits on every human being born to be a chattel.

Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

When you're criticized for something, it's best to wait two or three years and see.

Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.

When I go to clubs, I dont have to wait outside.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

You must learn to wait properly.