Waiting Quotes - Page 63

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos - in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever - was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.

Songwriters, you have to work - you have to wait for residuals. You have to pray that the song's going to be a hit. And then a year later, you might get a check.

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?". If the bus came would I be standing here?

The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

One must wait till it comes.

Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .