Wait Quotes - page 3

I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. Some skeptical friend: "Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut! I got the documentation right here...oh, wait it's at home...in the file...under 'D', for doughnut." (Mitch Hedberg)
Bloody men are like bloody buses - You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. View quote
Wendy Cope
So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. View quote
Lee Iacocca
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. View quote
Tom Stoppard
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. View quote
Nhat Hanh
When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds. View quote
William Congreve
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave. View quote
Anatole Broyard
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. View quote
Spike Milligan
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. (Abraham Lincoln)
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. View quote
Isaac Newton
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long. View quote
Markus Zusak
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. View quote
Peter De Vries
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes. View quote
Junot Diaz
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. View quote
Bradley Whitford
I want to play a villain - I can't wait to play a villain. View quote
Bernie Mac
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. View quote
Jack Canfield
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. (Eugenio Montale)
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. View quote
Earl Nightingale
I wait for death... and journalists. View quote
Jeanne Calment
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. View quote
Robert Mapplethorpe
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I'd take them all to dinner. All runaways. View quote
Al Lewis
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