Top 1200 Long Wait Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

As long as I don't have to go back to the catering hall and wait tables anymore, I'm very happy.

Find the best in everybody, no matter how long you have to wait for them to show it

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely stand still long enough for me to see what and who they are, before they hurtle away again. And so I spend a lot of time running after them, like a thrown rider after an escaped horse, saying 'Wait for me! Wait for me!' and waving my notebook in the air.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

One thing you learn in a long marriage is how many sneezes to wait before saying, "Bless you.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

We can't go in the ring and think opponent is going to be like that from the last knockout. We don't know how he is personally. We have to go in there and wait and wait and wait and see what he has because he is still a dangerous opponent.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid, I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Across the VA's system in our state, the wait times are entirely too long on average.

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

I take it that's where you met Todd.' 'Yep. Almost five years ago. Can you believe it?' 'Five years! You and Todd should be the poster couple for the 'Love Waits' campaign.' Christy laughed. 'It didn't seem that long. A lot has happened during those five years. But I do agree that true love is worth the wait. I'd wait another five years for Todd if I had to. He's the only man for me. Ever.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

Some people wait so long for their ship to come in, their pier collapses.

Well, if you're waitin' for a woman to make up her mind, you may have a a long wait.

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

I think the goal is parity: I try to be pro-woman without being anti-man, and I hope and wish that men could do the same in that when they look at the screenplay, they say, 'Wait, wait, wait - is my daughter represented here, is my wife represented here? Is my sister represented?'

I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Trust me to return to you." "I will wait forever. however long it takes.

As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You get to a point where you decide that if you want good things to be made, you're going to have to start making them yourself as an actress. You can't just wait around for it. But you can also just enjoy the breaks, and use them to kind of refuel. I've been working so long at this point that I don't mind the breaks. I think they make me better, actually.

Most times, I had to wait long for the roles that I really wanted to play.

Wait by the river long enough and the body of your enemy will float by you.

If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear.

Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.

I am committed when I make a film and if it takes a long time I would rather wait.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

If we wait long enough, a teacher will answer her own question, so we won't have to do much work.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I couldn't wait to get on the ice. I couldn't wait to get to practice. As a kid I couldn't wait to shoot pucks or play in parking lots, or play on the river or play on the bay.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

Wildlife photography takes a long time because you have to wait for things to happen.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland.