Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandre Dumas

Wait, and hope" (The Count of Monte Cristo)

But we'll have to wait and see how that actually works.

Ray Rhodes

My daughter, who is a nurse, said I was having a stroke. Wait a minute, I said.

Now we just wait and see what happens.

If we have to wait another year to a year and a half, I don't know if we could do it

I had to wait 12 years for this and now it has happened. It's fantastic.

Jeff Mangum

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

Jean M. Auel

You weren't being punished. You were waiting for me.

James C. Collins

The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change."

Jacqueline Carey

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Hillary Clinton

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

Hillary Clinton

I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one. There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today to try to just say wait, I'll get to that when I can. That is just not an acceptable approach.

Hillary Clinton

If you look at the single-payer systems, like Scandinavia, Canada, and elsewhere, they can get costs down because, you know, although their care, according to statistics, overall is as good or better on primary care, in particular, they do impose things like waiting times, you know.

Evan Esar

Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.

Evan Esar

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Ernest Hemingway

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

Ernest Hemingway

We wait always for something that does not come.

Eugen Herrigel

You must learn to wait properly.

Erwin McManus

All the evidence you need to prove God is waiting within you to be discovered.

Erwin McManus

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Federico Fellini

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Francis of Assisi

Lord, help me to live this day, quietly, easily. To lean upon Thy great strength, trustfully, restfully. To wait for the unfolding of Thy will, patiently, serenely. To meet others, peacefully, joyously. To face tomorrow, confidently, courageously.

Francesca Lia Block

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

Fran Tarkenton

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

George Santayana

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everything will come in due course, if you have the gumption to wait for it.

Christian Bale

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

Christian Bale

It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along.

George Orwell

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

George Carlin

It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.

Gene Ween

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.