Waiting Quotes

• Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.

  

  Corneille Ewango
  • Important
  • Country
  • Training

• When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be, 'out of there.'

  

  Elizabeth Pena
  • Waiting
  • Failure

• I felt less alone when I didn’t know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Learning

• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  

  Carol Vorderman
  • Up
  • She
  • Kitchen

• That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Waiting

• Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Watches

• Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

  

  Bob Goff
  • God
  • Waiting
  • Chases

• I don't want to find myself at the age of 60 waiting by the telephone for someone else to decide if I am capable of being in what might be a crummy TV production.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Age
  • Waiting

• No matter how great you are, the next great one is already sitting there waiting to take your place.

  

  Joe Theismann
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Russell James asked me to shoot underwater. He tied my feet under the water. I don't know how many feet - maybe five, six meters. He tied me underwater and I had no air. Somebody had a tube, and they were giving me some oxygen, but I couldn't really see anything. Everything was blurry. I'm waiting for the oxygen - that was the craziest thing.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Giving
  • Water
  • Air

• I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Waiting

• What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Great
  • Waiting

• And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Waiting

• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Deep

• Arcade Fire has kept their indie cred. They will sell out stadiums yet still have underdog status. But when you're a band like Coldplay, people are waiting to knock you down.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Band
  • Fire

• As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.

  

  Danny Huston
  • Game
  • Hate
  • Motivated

• I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Time
  • Success
  • Lost

• If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Good
  • Waiting

• I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Waiting
  • Waves
  • Surfing

• The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Men
  • True
  • Sleep

• You're always waiting on the tide,It's time you decide.I've walked down long roads that seem to have no end at all.You never wanted time to end,To let my life offend.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

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