Quotes on Waiting

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

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

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.

I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

I sit in the dark and wait for a little flame to appear at the end of my pencil.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel -or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

One must dare to show what he wants. You have to go and ask for things rather than wait for them to happen.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.