Top 578 Waited Quotes & Sayings

I realize I waited too long but please don't move on.

SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green outrageous hopeful light of spring. People came and went, grandmothers and doll collectors and little girls with their mothers. Edward Tulane waited. The seasons turned into years. Edward Tulane waited. He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you.

You woke in the morning with the weight of doom on your head. You lay with eyes shut wondering why you dreaded the day; was it a debt, was it a lost love? -and then you remembered the nightmare....This was no time for beauty, for love, or private future....There was no future; everyone waited, marked time, waited. For what?

We all waited on an afterlife. Only I planned to be alive for mine.

I waited for my first kiss.

I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for me to die?' I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

I've waited almost 10 months for this revenge, I know I deserve it.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

I was able to overcome this because of the fans who waited for me. I promise not to disappoint you anymore.

I was so anxious for it to be my turn, for the manager to read the letter from my mum. I waited and waited for it. The manager had spoken to the mothers of every player in the team; he'd been reading a message before every game for months, and finally my turn had come.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

she waited to change , and i waited to change , and we both wanted what we couldn't have

In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but none came; we have waited for a mighty military victory, but we were defeated roundly; we have waited for outside powers (the United States or, in its time, the Soviet Union), but none came to our aid. The one thing we have not tried in all seriousness has been to rely on OURSELVES: until we do that with a full commitment to success there is no chance that we can advance towards self-determination and freedom from aggression.

Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Eleanor,” he said, just because he liked saying it, “why do you like me?” “I don’t like you.” He waited. And waited… Then he started to laugh. “You’re kind of mean,” he said. “Don’t laugh. It just encourages me.

If people like Edison had waited to make every - or Ben Franklin or some of those people had waited to solve every problem on Earth before they did their research or before they were curious about doing something new, we'd never have made a lot of the progress we have.

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.

Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

There are people in this country who have waited for decades for affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.

I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

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

I just waited tables three nights a week to cover the bases.

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.

All my life, I've been focusing on tennis, training, getting results. Jenni and I wanted to have kids pretty early, but we waited. We always thought it was better in the future. Now I don't understand why we ever waited.

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

There is nothing I've wanted more, or waited for longer, than to be a father.

I've never had a dream that didn't come true, if I waited long enough.

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I've waited a long time to be part of a franchise like this [the Yankees].

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

Death was past, life not come: so he waited.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

I can't tell you at DragCon how many families that waited in line to see me. Some of them waited up to five hours, and they had their family there. That's the beauty of this. I remember being that little gay boy in Mesquite that was so afraid of the world, like, 'Am I living right? Am I living wrong?'

I waited a long time to get a break with Indrajit's Huduga Hudugi.'

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

If you're not embarrassed when you ship your first version, you waited too long.