Quotes with waiting

  • The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
  • When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
  • The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
  • As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
  • Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
  • Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about it.
  • Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
  • I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
  • Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
  • We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
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  • J. B. Priestley I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
    Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Stephen Levine If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
    Stephen Levine
    American poet and author (1937 - 2016)
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  • Joyce Meyer Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
    Joyce Meyer
    American Christian author and speaker (1943 - )
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  • Carl Edward Sagan Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
    Carl Edward Sagan
     
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  • Robert Anthony Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Peter Kline All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus All these years later, I have almost no memory of the shows themselves. It's a blur. I remember my jogging runs better - that was my way of getting my energy together. I used to try to get to the arena as late as possible; otherwise, I'd just be pacing around, waiting to go on.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson All things come to him who waits - provided he knows what he is waiting for.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Bret Harte And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Robert Montgomery Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barack Obama Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
    An American story: the speeches of Barack Obama: a primer
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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