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Quotes about Waiting


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.

Ben Elton

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. - Chance.

Joseph Conrad

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. - Waiting for God.

Simone Weil

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

Sarah Doudney

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.

Jean-paul Satre

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

Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.

Brendon Behan

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Anonymous

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

Slackers are waiting for their ship to come in, but the haven't wandered down to the docks to meet it. Most times their ship doesn't travel by water anyway.

Slacker Proverb

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her— but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.

Robert Schuman

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

J. G. Holland

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Fran Lebowitz

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Gian Carlo Menotti

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.

Steven Wright

Whatever we are waiting for— peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance— it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Elizabeth Taylor

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

French Proverb

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