W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
Source: Children of the Red King #2: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
“Waiting and waiting and waiting... for somebody to reply... but nobody is going to reply.”
Source: Deep Legend
“Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.”
“Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.”
Source: This Is Not a Test
“Waiting becomes a risk
when there is no change
and others begin to carry the cost.
Knowing when to wait is care.
Knowing when to stop waiting is leadership.”
“Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.”
“Waiting earns two results; disappointment or enjoyment.”
“Waiting for a good idea is not about time but about the effort of wait.
Of course wait means working all the time researching options.”
“Waiting for a good time would never work out. There could never be a good time for news like this.”
Source: Bad Company
“Waiting for a late friend. Waiting in line at the movies. Waiting for the phone to ring. Waiting for the mail. Waiting at the checkout counter. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the train. Waiting for the plane. Waiting in a darkened theater. Waiting in a foreign country. Waiting to give birth. Waiting for sluggish minors. Waiting for elderly parents. Waiting for something to go wrong. Waiting at the doctor’s office. The waiting of chronic illness. Eroded public services waiting. Waiting for the Messiah. Wait list waiting. The hoping and waiting, the waiting and hoping. The waiting of childhood. The waiting to grow up. The waiting of old age. Waiting to recover. Waiting for another stroke. Waiting for the body to let go. Waiting for inspiration. Letting-the-field-lie-fallow waiting. The thinking-of-nothing and thinking-of-everything waiting. Waiting just as the storm ends. Waiting for the sun.”
Source: Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
“Waiting for a long-term solution to immigration reform will not make Americans safer.”
“Waiting for a mental health crisis as a trigger for help is a failure of foresight. More often than not, it is always too late, the signs were there all along.”
“Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass
“Waiting for an incompetent government to fix things is much like Waiting for Godot.”
“Waiting for another, often discovers a truer version of oneself.”
Source: Big Voice Within
“Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!”
“Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.”
“Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.”
“Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”
“Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.”
“waiting for happiness is never make you happy, Being happy is the key of happiness forever.”
“Waiting for her is as delightful as waiting for sunset”
“Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.”
“Waiting for inspiration is like standing at the airport waiting for a train.”
“Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.”
“Waiting for one’s execution is worse than dying. To seek my beheading is glory. Who went to his execution willingly? Jesus did. Jesus even dragged his cross half way to Golgotha. I think he would have nailed himself to the cross if he had to.”
Source: Gawain and the Green Knight
“Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own.”
“Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.”
“Waiting for Prince Charming?" "Aren't all women? And you're waiting for Cinderella." "Actually," Jared said slowly, "I'm rather hoping to find the Evil Queen. I think she'd be much more fun.”
Source: True Love
“Waiting for ‘real life’ to begin when you’re ‘ready’ means you’ll never be ready for real life because real life never happens when you’re ready.”
“Waiting for someone
has these stages;
Enthusiastic, eager
Confusion, worry
Happy or disheartened.”
“Waiting for someone is a terrible time and a feeling that we cannot describe in words.”
“Waiting for someone is a terrible time and feeling that we cannot describe in words.”
“Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.”
“Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandment. Waiting. There was no one.”
“Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandonment. Waiting. There was no one.”
Source: Loneliness
“Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!”
“Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.”
“Waiting for that big miracle to happen can prevent us from recognizing the small ones that happen every day.”
Source: Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
“Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.”
“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
Source: Murder on Family Grounds
“Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.”
“Waiting for the end to come,
Wishing I had strength to stand,
This is not what I had planned,
It's out of my control”
“Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
What is there to be or do?
What's become of me or you?
Are we kind or are we true?
Sitting two and two, boys, waiting for the end.”
“Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.”
Source: The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'
“Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.”
“Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.”
“Waiting for the inspiration to hit is often just resistance in disguise.”
Source: How to Be Everything
“Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.”
“Waiting for the Revolution can be as agonizing and intoxicating as waiting for one’s lover.”