There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
~By Marian Anderson ~
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
~By George Harrison ~
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.
~By Wilferd A. Peterson ~
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.
~By Alan Brien ~
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
~By Garrett Fort ~
I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.
~By Lawrence Ferlinghetti ~
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.
~By Winona Ryder ~
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
~By Ron Livingston ~
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
~By Jason Biggs ~
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
~By Tyra Banks ~
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
~By Susan George ~
Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.
~By John Cameron ~
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something.
~By John Lone ~
I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
~By Ben Kingsley ~
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
~By Luther Allison ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I don't like waiting in airports for my bags. Even worse, I don't like waiting in airports when my bags are lost.
~By Steve Waugh ~
So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
~By Salma Hayek ~
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
~By Joan Collins ~
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
~By Cao Yu ~
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
~By Daisy Fuentes ~
Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen.
~By Jim Gerlach ~
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~By William Gurnall ~
I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
~By Adrian Edmondson ~
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
~By Ernest Newman ~
But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check.
~By Mike Epps ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
I'm in this position where I can afford to wait, I'm lucky enough to be financially secure to not have to do anything that's thrown at me. You know the next couple of jobs are going to be pretty crucial in terms of how you're perceived by people. So I'm just waiting.
~By Dominic Monaghan ~
God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
~By Richard Holloway ~
I believe in love, but I don't sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
~By Bill Brandt ~
We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones.
~By Kerry King ~
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
~By Barack Obama ~
Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.
~By Mary Gordon ~
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
~By Michael Kinsley ~
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
~By William Empson ~
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
~By Piers Anthony ~
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
~By Karl Rahner ~
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
~By Catherine Crier ~
I suppose I was waiting until I was old enough to have some sort of experience to sing about. When you're young, it's hard to sing the blues. Nobody believes you.
~By Nick Lowe ~
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The essence of a government health care system - for people who have never lived under it and don't know - is waiting, waiting, waiting. You wait for everything. You wait for years for operations that are routine in America.
~By Mark Steyn ~
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDonalds. It gave me income while I was waiting for my big break and at the very least I could eat.
~By Sharon Stone ~
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
~By Curtis Sliwa ~
So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather.
~By Lisa Guerrero ~
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
~By Jean Houston ~
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.
~By Joss Whedon ~
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
~By George Washington Carver ~
Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.
~By Edward de Bono ~
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
~By Morris West ~
On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.
~By Hector Elizondo ~
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
~By Ian Anderson ~
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
~By Booth Tarkington ~
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there."
~By Elizabeth Pena ~
I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.
~By Daniela Hantuchova ~
I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~By Barack Obama ~
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.
~By Christian Bale ~
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
~By Chief Joseph ~
The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.
~By Louis Freeh ~
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
~By Iggy Pop ~
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.
~By Ivor Novello ~
I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.
~By Ruby Wax ~
You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.
~By Michael Aspel ~
Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
~By Stephen Hopkins ~
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
~By Sally Ride ~
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
~By Ingmar Bergman ~
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~By Stephen Levine ~
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
~By Eugenio Montale ~
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.
~By Dorothee Solle ~
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