Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Brashares

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

Ann Brashares

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Ann Brashares

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

Ann Coulter

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does.

Adrian Rogers

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

Addison Mizner

They also swear who only stand and wait.

Adam Young

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Adam Lambert

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

Alan Cohen

Why wait for your ship to come in when you are already on it?

I scrambled around, got everything together, and applied. Then it was like a waiting game.

I think we're still waiting for that to emerge.

I think a lot of (pollsters) are waiting to see what we do this week.

Byron Dorgan

I think this is nonnegotiable, ... You've waited too long.

Dennis Murphy

I think we are cautiously optimistic, wait and see.

I was waiting for it. At that time, telegrams were so prominent.

Sol Campbell

I am fit, I am well and I am back. Now I am just waiting for my chance.

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

Alice Walker

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.

Alice Munro

I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It’s dealing with the material I’m inundated with that poses the problem.

Alice Hoffman

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

Anne Lamott

The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work.

Anna Chlumsky

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!

Albert Camus

No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.

Albert Camus

N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.

Annie Dillard

You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum, a single chorused note everywhere the same. This is it: This hum is the silence.

Clemence Poesy

I can wait for film projects without having to do things to live.

D. A. Carson

A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.

Alexander Pope

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Debbie Ford

Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

Debbie Ford

Right now, there is a stronger, more vibrant, more inspired version of “you” that is wanting and waiting to emerge.

E. L. Konigsburg

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.

E. Stanley Jones

To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.