Wait Quotes

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.'

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

"Work and wait", "work and wait" is what God says to us in creation.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Look, I hate to sound like Pollyanna, but I literally can't wait to get to work in the morning. I've got steady jobs, I've got my health, and I'm here in the greatest city in the world. I'd be a pig not to be grateful.

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.