You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for. — Craig Bruce
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Henri Nouwen
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for. — Barbara Brown Taylor
Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it. — Jenny Nimmo
The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting — Andy Warhol
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen. — Wendell Berry
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. — Khaled Hosseini
I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life. — Michael Buble
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. — Oscar Wilde
To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working. — Louie Giglio
I am awaiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Short Waiting Around Quotes
I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient. — Niall Horan
Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott
The key is to wait. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to do nothing. — David Tepper
Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters. — A. Lee Martinez
So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. — Neil Strauss
Some things in life are worth waiting for. — Danielle Steel
All things come to those who wait. — Violet Fane
Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting. — Joyce Meyer
All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait. — Evan Esar
Top 10 Waiting Around Quotes
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it — Faith Ringgold
You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues. — Slash
Worrying is stupid. it's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain. — Wiz Khalifa
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. — Alice Walker
A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. — Mandy Hale
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people. — Vivienne Westwood
If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward. — Oprah Winfrey
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? — Frank Sherwood Rowland
When I give lectures, people will wait behind until there is no one around and then tell me quietly, 'I seem to be one of those people who need eight or nine hours' sleep.' — Matthew Walker
What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else. — Stephanie Klein
Waiting Around Image Quotes
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
Not Waiting Around Quotes
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. — Chuck Close
You are not going to be lost when you get to hell. If you are without Christ, you are lost right now. Your trial is already over. You've already been sentenced. You're just waiting for execution morning to roll around. — Lester Roloff
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide. — Mark Twain
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. — George Gershwin
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck Close
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes. — John Huston
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself. — Lukas Haas
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. — Edward De Bono
If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek — Kay Ryan
Done Waiting Around Quotes
If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody. — Nikki Giovanni
When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't. — Orson Welles
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that. — Bette Midler
When you start seeing your worth, you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.
I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things. — Jeet Banerjee
Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room. — Courtney Summers
But I will tell you that I didn't go to Washington to sit around and wait for Congressional action. Never done that before, and don't plan to in the future. — Gina McCarthy
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
We can't wait around for Superman to come in here and save the town, save the team. It's up to us to get it done. — Jermaine O'Neal
I sit around too much, waiting for other people to do stuff and angsting about stuff they've done, without doing anything myself. — E. Lockhart
Waiting Around For Someone Quotes
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary. — Lena Dunham
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. — Criss Jami
It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. — Roger Zelazny
You must be willing to leave the life that you planned in order to find the one waiting for you.
I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket. — Wanda Sykes
If I want to know how I'm doing at work, I don't wait for a pat on the back; I ask the people who will give me a clear, objective opinion. When I need a real, arms-wrapped-around-me hug, I go to someone who does that. I stopped getting disappointed by my expectations from non-huggers. — Chandra Wilson
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Do what's right, first. Don't sit around and wait for someone else to do the right thing first. — Joyce Meyer
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration. — Enrique Vila-Matas
I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show. — Lena Dunham
Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you're doing. Be relentless and never give up. — Troy Little
Don't Sit Around Waiting Quotes
I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses. — Renee Zellweger
Making movies can actually be quite boring, there's a lot of sitting around and waiting. Unless you really believe in the story and love the character, and unless you really need the money, I don't see the point in doing it. — Jeremy Irons
It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains? — Linda Fiorentino
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers. — Edward Norton
I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing. — Diana Ross
You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. There is no perfect. There’s just different. But different can be wonderful. — Sarah Jio
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seen important to you.
I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke. — Suzanne Pleshette
You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it. — Herman Lay
Not Sitting Around And Waiting Quotes
I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights. — Dana Hill
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice. — Kristin Hannah
I'm not one of these guys who sits around saying, 'Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that's why he's doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He's just had a bad childhood and that's why he's eating people.' Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet. — Clint Eastwood
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood. — Moshe Dayan
What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years. — Malcolm X
When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty. — Kreesha Turner
No matter how long you have traveled in the wrong direction, you always have the choice to turn around.
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation. — Chuck Close
We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven. — Rick Warren
Waiting Around For You Quotes
When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again. — Jimmy Buffett
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead. — William C. Menninger
You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too. — Steven Furtick
It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around. — Al Pacino
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise. — George Mason
Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you. — Aurora Rose Reynolds
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well. — Henry Scott Holland
What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time to move on, I need love to feel strong. Cause I've got time to think it through, And maybe I'm too good for you! — Cher
If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own. — Aaron Bruno
Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do. — Joyce Meyer
What Am I Waiting For Quotes
Quite Franc-ly, I think I am an asset to this world we live in. I know that if I didn’t exist, there would be some truly upset people just waiting for me. A life without Franco is like a kitten without fur. That’s what my reflection told me. — James Franco
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am. — M. C. Escher
I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people. — Bethany Hamilton
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you. — Walt Whitman
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. — Arthur Miller
Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap. — Son Lux
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death. — Walt Whitman
I told my caddie today that I am in the position that I want to be in. That this is what I have been waiting for, to win my tenth victory. I said that I am going to do everything that I can do today and that nothing is going to stop me. — Annika Sorenstam
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. — Lucy Lawless
Getting old is the most the beautiful thing. I can't wait until I'm 60, to be honest, reading the newspaper. I don't know what I am going to do. I'll probably keep on being a novelist and maybe some theater piece, some dance piece, some music for films. It's exciting to grow. — Mauro Remiddi
Sitting Around Waiting Quotes
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. — Charles Bukowski
One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves. — Meg Cabot
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away. — Bruce Springsteen
You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin. — Melanie Griffith
A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it. — Rich Mullins
Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. — Zoe Kazan
You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen. — Richard Nelson Bolles
I think being consistent is really important. In the arts there's a misconception that you sit around waiting for the muse to come, and that it's all really mystical and mysterious. In reality, sometimes you have to fake it till you make it. — Ayana Mathis
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. — Joe Eszterhas
My heart's in stage. Making Quadrophenia was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But "hurry up and wait" is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing. — Phil Daniels
Sitting Around Quotes
I'll be dammed if I sit around another year, Dreamin' dreams hopin' somehow that they just appear. — J. Cole
The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot. — Steve Harvey
My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent. — Tommy Douglas
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts. — Amy Winehouse
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You've gotta do something and you've gotta do something fast. You just sitting around talking about it and hoping for things to get better isn't going to do anything. — Andrew Tate
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned? — Leonard Ravenhill
I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience. — Brendon Urie
I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling. — Ric Ocasek
Every minute that you sit around trying to figure out what to do, someone else is already doing it. Make a choice or a choice will be made for you. — Tim Grover
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table. — James David Vance
When you help people, don't wait around to hear them say, "Thank you." A lot of times we do good things, but in the back of our mind we're hoping to get some appreciation. But if you make your intentions pure, and you expect only from Allah, He will take more care of you than you could ever imagine. — Nouman Ali Khan
We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. — Thomas A. Edison
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting. — Dr. Seuss
When I'm walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner,there is something wonderful waiting for me. That's my attitude. — Sophia Loren
I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heat of the known awaits just around the corner. — Alex Webb
Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does. — Margaret Atwood
The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life. — Warren W. Wiersbe
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose. — John Michael Hayes
It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot. — Dick Durbin
You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life. — Joel Osteen
When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When each day might be your last, it made a big difference. You couldn't maintain that state forever, of course; the stress would eat you alive, but putting yourself at risk did bring out your best-or your worst — Steve Perry
Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know. — Lauren Oliver
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone. — Henry Rollins
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can't they? Yet they can't wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it! — Irwin Shaw
I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot. — Eddie Redmayne
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. — Mariama Bâ
And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon. — Lee Ann Womack
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