Waiting Quotes

• Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

  

  Nuala O'Faolain
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Waiting

• An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Die
  • Ideas
  • Said

• Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Remember
  • Waiting
  • Eternity

• My team of people around me, they were like, 'Don't be waiting and begging for a man.' You know what I'm saying? Like, 'Don't be desperate because you think having a boyfriend is going to be better. It might be harder with your career.' And then I was like, 'Yeah, you're right. I need to enjoy this."

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Career
  • Team

• In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moments
  • Winning
  • Chance

• I swear that I'm dyingslowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere...just take me there.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Perfect
  • Waiting
  • Spring

• She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • She
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I'm still waiting for Peter Jackson to let me play an elf. I want to play Orlando Bloom's father. No, Orlando Bloom's younger, hotter brother. I don't think it's going to happen.

  

  Cliff Curtis
  • Father
  • Waiting
  • Brother

• waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Police
  • Video
  • Assessment

• I've been waiting to have facial hair on camera for the longest time - I'm always playing teenagers, and I always have to shave. I'll let you in on a little secret: I have sensitive skin, and I'm a sensitive guy, so shaving is something that I don't look forward to.

  

  Dustin Milligan
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Hair

• In pitching, control is the main thing-one thing you've got to have. Few pitchers have it. In batting, it is timing-waiting on the ball, not hurrying the swing-just as it is in golf. Most hitters in baseball swing too quickly. They can't wait on the pitch. Old Joe Jackson could wait. So could Speaker and Cobb

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Control
  • Baseball
  • Golf

• During my nightmarish time in a coma, 11 days long, you kept appearing in my dreams, wild, you and Slava, like gypsies & always too late. You were a two-man orchestra & we were always looking for you and waiting for you.

  

  Jean Tinguely
  • Time
  • Long
  • Waiting

• It is a challenge, with the global fame, to try to act like I put my pants on one leg at a time, when in fact I have Pippa Middleton help me put my pants on every morning. She's my lady-in-waiting as well.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Time
  • She
  • Help

• The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Time
  • Live
  • Waiting

• I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Saws
  • Cliffs
  • Bounce

• That was the stuff of other lives, he was waiting for his to begin. He got in the habit of walking around the trailer and asking aloud, 'Who knows?' He said, 'Who knows?' For no one knew. He meant, anything could happen. A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • May
  • Fall
  • Walking

• They're waiting for what the government has to say rather than what the national project has to say.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Government
  • Waiting
  • Project

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

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Die
  • Prosperity
  • Sure

• Acting is so much about waiting... waiting for an audition, waiting for the right part to come along. It's nice to write your own thing, write about what you're feeling and then go out and perform them. It's a nice thing to have and not get bored.

  

  Emily Kinney
  • Feeling
  • Nice
  • Bored

• Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Success
  • Waiting

• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Bird

• Usually, I'll drop twenty to forty per cent of the dialogue - you can do so much with gesture. I'm still waiting to do a silent film.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Waiting

• Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

  

  Al Davis
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

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