Explore Quotes on Waiting

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Start leaving what you want to leave. Your future is waiting.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention

Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.

I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

O Jesus! on this day, you have fulfilled all my desires. From now on, near the Eucharist, I shall be able To sacrifice myself in silence, to wait for Heaven in peace. Keeping myself open to the rays of the Divine Host, In this furnace of love, I shall be consumed, And like a seraphim, Lord, I shall love You.

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Every day can be like Christmas in its love and its peace if our hearts open up and make room for love. The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

What is this life if, full of care,_x000D__x000D_We have no time to stand and stare._x000D__x000D_No time to stand beneath the boughs_x000D__x000D_And stare as long as sheep or cows._x000D__x000D_No time to see, when woods we pass,_x000D__x000D_Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass._x000D__x000D_No time to see, in broad daylight,_x000D__x000D_Streams full of stars, like skies at night._x000D__x000D_No time to turn at Beauty's glance,_x000D__x000D_And watch her feet, how they can dance._x000D__x000D_No time to wait till her mouth can_x000D__x000D_Enrich that smile her eyes began._x000D__x000D_A poor life this if, full of care,_x000D__x000D_We have no time to stand and stare.

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.

There are lots of cases where we know more about how the world works than we do about how we know how it works. That's no paradox. Understanding the structure of galaxies is one thing, understanding how we understand the structure of galaxies is quite another. There isn't the slightest reason why the first should wait on the second and, in point of historical fact, it didn't. This bears a lot of emphasis; it turns up in philosophy practically everywhere you look.

Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.