Best 3969 quotes in «waiting quotes» category

At synods, I usually wait about a week before I speak. First I listen. I feel the temperature. I listen to what has been said, what has not been said, and what I think needs to be said at that point.

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

A vet! I started laughing weakly and had to sit on the edge of the tub. A vet. Wait till they found out how appropriate that was.

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

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

A winner listens, a loser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

[A woman waiting for him in the Kremlin asked Gobachev] "Was communism invented by a politician or a scientist?" [He replied] "Well, a politician." She said, "That explains it. The scientist would have tried it on mice first.

A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.

A woman sitting by herself is not waiting for you.

A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

A zealous disciple expressed a desire to teach others the Truth and asked the Master what he thought about this. The Master said, "Wait." Each year the disciple would return with the same request and each time the Master would give him the same reply: "Wait." One day he said to the Master, "When will I be ready to teach?" Said the Master, "When your excessive eagerness to teach has left you.

Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.

Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!

Barack Obama says that we need to be humble toward terrorism. Yet he is the one we have been waiting for. That is humble?

Barak Obama said as much today talking about immigration. (imitating Obama) "I don't care what happens today. It is gonna happen. We are going to have comprehensive immigration reform. We're gonna have amnesty for these 11 or 12 million. It's gonna happen. You just wait." And that's the way they go about it. Defeat is not something that, in their minds, is lasting.

Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap

Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.

Because my life isn't going to wait around while I figure out how to make it work.

Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

Before people crow about the absence of weapons of mass destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.

Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I’ve never seen a player in such good physical condition. He’s a gladiator.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

Before you, I believed love was making love. Waiting only makes me love you more.

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

Being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody. Whereas, as an actor, you have to audition or wait for somebody else to make a decision about how to use you, with writing, you can do it anywhere, anytime you want. You don't have to ask permission.

Being as restless as I am by nature, I couldn't simply just be on set, wait for my turn to rehearse for the week. And I kept reading, but it wasn't enough for me.

Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.

Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.

Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God .

Better to live your life open rather than exist on borrowed time, waiting for the great unmasking.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.