Waiting Quotes - page 2

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The mistakes are there, waiting to be made. View quote
Savielly Tartakower
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. View quote
Ronald Coase
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. View quote
E. M. Forster
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. View quote
Mae West
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. View quote
Julia Child
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. View quote
George Washington Carver
Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me. View quote
Roberto Bolaño
You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. (Gerald Durrell)
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. View quote
Don Marquis
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. View quote
John L. Lewis
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi. View quote
Ben Elton
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. View quote
J. B. Priestley
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen. View quote
Sally Ride
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting. View quote
Andy Warhol
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. View quote
Kathleen Norris
To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning! (Margaret Thatcher)
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes. View quote
Winston Churchill
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this - this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life. View quote
Aron Ralston
You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come. View quote
Junot Diaz
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