Waiting Quotes

• As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Small
  • Myself

• No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

  

  Ben Elton
  • People
  • Waiting

• The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

  

  Bono U2
  • World
  • Waiting

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Lunch
  • Coat
  • Purchase

• Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • German
  • Thrill
  • Verb

• The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• I will always really work hard to write as much as I can, but I also love sitting back and waiting on those big Nashville songwriters to send me some great songs, too.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Waiting

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Army
  • Industry

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

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Nothing

• You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Care
  • Waiting

• For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Flowers

• Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Stop
  • Maturity
  • Recognition

• I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Morning
  • Waiting
  • Enthusiasm

• I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Debt

• It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Women
  • True
  • Want

• With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Life
  • Why
  • Cancer

• I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.

  

  Wovoka
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Waiting
  • Forest
  • Brainy

• Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

  

  David Sax
  • Business
  • American
  • Career

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• We are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.

  

  Edward Humes
  • Society
  • Waiting
  • Crimes

• I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Way
  • Waiting
  • Flying

• I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.

  

  Jon Bellion
  • People
  • Singing
  • Sick

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