Waited Quotes

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked across the border.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This he needed to know. So he watched and he waited. At half past seven he was rewarded.

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted.

So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get them.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

Last, in restaurants you spend a lot of time dealing with people who are very unhappy. Soup has been spilled on their laps, they've waited 10 minutes to get their check so they can leave, and you learn how to listen, I think, in a much more proactive way than government does.

I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job. Job waited and became the wealthiest and richest man ever 'cause he believed in God.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I waited for my first kiss.

What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.