Top 1200 Waiting In Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

The more powerless people are, the longer they are kept waiting.

I think the hardest part of being in the band and trying to make it is waiting, you know? I think, to be fair, if we would have gotten a big break early on, it would have been wasted on us. All of that perseverance you often learn by failing. We went from barely being able to book anywhere to being nominated for Grammys. It's a snowball effect that happens to a lot of bands. I think the hardest part is having a side job: bussing tables, bartending, and waiting tables to make ends meet. Sometimes they are really worth doing, because one day things might actually work out in your favor.

Before Bitcoin, I was just waiting around for the Singularity.

No, when I worked as an accountant I was falling asleep waiting for 5 o'clock.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.

Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.

I think everybody has somebody for them, and they're out there waiting for you somewhere.

I'm sure there are talented Arab fighters out there waiting to be discovered.

I think with Donald Trump we're seeing the sort of utterly vanished line at long last of enter - between entertainment and politics. I mean there's always been an enormous dose of entertainment in politics. Trump has completely erased that line but the Trump phenomenon when it comes to where the media's culpability is how much we should be beating ourselves up, that's a complicated question because one of the distinctive features of our era is we know exactly what consumers are doing almost in real time.

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the winter's snow.

Youth lives in an atmosphere of energy waiting to make contact.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as The Pacific.

Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.

I feel like an hors deurve waiting to happen.

We know that a statement proved to be good must be oorrect. New thoughts are constantly obtaining the floor. These two theories - that all is matter, or that all is Mind-will dispute the ground, until one is acknowledged to be the victor. Discussing his campaign, General Grant said: "I propose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer." Science says: All is Mind and Mind's idea. You must fight it out on this line. Matter can afford you no aid.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus.

'Still Clean' discusses the hopelessness of waiting for someone who's abandoned you.

Man, I tell you, this is worth waiting 16 years for!

Every nuclear bomb is an Auschwitz waiting to happen.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It's got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move otherwise than in a straight line. The rectilinear motions of these four elements when returning to their original place are of two kinds, either centrifugal, viz., the motion of the air and the fire; or centripedal, viz., the motion of the earth, and the water; and when the elements have reached their original place, they remain at rest.

Each of us has some unique capabilities waiting for realization.

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

I was getting offers when I was in Bollywood, but was waiting for a strong character.

There is no such thing as a commodity. It is simply a product waiting to be differentiated.

Our ultimate weapon is not our guns but our beliefs ... Ours are not Western values. They are the universal values of the human spirit and anywhere, any time, ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same. Freedom not tyranny. Democracy not dictatorship. The rule of law not the rule of the secret police. The spread of freedom is the best security for the free. It is our last line of defence and our first line of attack.

Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

You are not waiting for your life to start. It's going on right now.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.

Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

We serve a God who is waiting to hear from you, and He can't wait to respond.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.