Explore Quotes on Waiting

Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

Gilmore Girls was the highlight of my ridiculous life. I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.

A good businessman sees where others don’t see. What I see, you may not see. You cannot see because that is the secret of the business… the entire world is a big market waiting for anybody who knows the rules of the game.

Imagine that, death was just like being asleep. Would he have time to think before it was all over? And would he have time to think that he had thought it? But wait, how much do you have to think before you have finished thinking?

I don't fall in love very easily. It takes a long time, and then, when I have fallen in love, I'm still not sure. I'm suspicious of myself. What if tomorrow I don't feel the same? I have to wait, to be sure. And I wait and wait.

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books had prepared me for. Fate had to do with blind seers, oracles, choruses announcing death, not with panting next to the refrigerator, fumbling with condoms, waiting in a Honda parked round the corner and surreptitious encounters in a Lisbon hotel. Only the written word exists, everything one must do oneself is without form, subject to contingency without rhyme or reason. It takes too long. And if it ends badly the metre isn't right, and there's no way to cross things out.

This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

Precious things lost are transmutable. They refuse oblivion. They simply wait to be rendered into testimonies, into stories and songs.

It's amazing the things you realize _x000D_when you lose someone: _x000D_you get mad at yourself for not _x000D_saying the things you could've a million times, _x000D_you take for granted the days _x000D_spent doing nothing when _x000D_you could have been with them._x000D_Anyone can be taken, _x000D_at any time in our lives,_x000D_but we always wait until they're gone to say _x000D_the things we never had the courage to before.

I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?'

Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

Memory revises me._x000D_Even now a letter_x000D_comes from a place_x000D_I don’t know, from someone_x000D_with my name_x000D_and postmarked years ago,_x000D_while I await_x000D_injunctions from the light_x000D_or the dark;_x000D_I wait for shapeliness_x000D_limned, or dissolution._x000D_Is paradise due or narrowly missed_x000D_until another thousand years?_x000D_I wait_x000D_in a blue hour_x000D_and faraway noise of hammering,_x000D_and on a page a poem begun, something_x000D_about to be dispersed,_x000D_something about to come into being.

Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

One of the frustrating things for people who miss the first rally in a bull market is that they wait for the big correction and it never comes. The market just keeps climbing and climbing. It feeds on itself in frenzied fashion and propels prices considerably higher for six months or so, and sometimes longer.

In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this likfe the life and power of the Kindgom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.