I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
~By Barack Obama ~
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.
~By Don Bluth ~
In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
~By Joichi Ito ~
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 ~
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
You sit there waiting for the RED LIGHT to go on. You could be sitting there for five minutes, waiting, while the producer talks to the engineer. Then the light goes on you know that you mustn't make a mistake for at least 4 minutes.
~By Jim Sullivan ~
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
~By Rainer Maria Rilke ~
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
~By Bob Hope ~
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
~By Lucy Lawless ~
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
~By Terry Pratchett ~
Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.
~By Ian Anderson ~
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 ~
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I've figured out what to do so far, but it's always the next thing you come to where the man with the bucket of ice cold water is waiting - whoosh! in your face. That's why you work with directors who know what to tell you to do.
~By Judi Dench ~
When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.
~By Sally Ride ~
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 ~
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
~By Ingmar Bergman ~
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
~By Ritchie Blackmore ~
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
~By Alan Clark ~
We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!
~By Giorgio Armani ~
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
~By John Perry Barlow ~
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
~By James Dobson ~
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 ~
Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.
~By Stanley Kunitz ~
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 ~
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
~By Mae West ~
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 ~
I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
~By Jason Biggs ~
I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
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 ~
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
~By Jet Li ~
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
~By Jane Fonda ~
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
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 ~
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
~By Jean Houston ~
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
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 ~
People are always waiting to be discovered.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.
~By Bruce Catton ~
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 ~
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
~By Benjamin Haydon ~
I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
~By Rachel McAdams ~
Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
~By Hun Sen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
~By Sam Ewing ~
People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
~By Derek Luke ~
To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
~By Dan Castellaneta ~
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
The Indian race are waiting and praying.
~By Chief Joseph ~
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 ~
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
~By George Harrison ~
There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
~By Tom Glazer ~
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
~By William Empson ~
Making a movie is a long, dull process. There's a lot of waiting around.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
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 ~
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
There are a lot of people out there who are just waiting that we fail. They brought up the theory that we're one-hit wonders and they want us to fall flat on our noses, just to prove them right.
~By Mark McGrath ~
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 ~
All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win.
~By Richard Williams ~
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
~By Tyra Banks ~
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
~By Francesca Annis ~
It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.
~By Kato Kaelin ~
Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
~By Richard Jewell ~
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming.
~By Corrine Brown ~
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.
~By Clara Barton ~
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~By E. M. Forster ~
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love skating and that my coach is there waiting for me - I would get up and go. And my mother would always get up and eat breakfast with me!
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
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 ~
I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.
~By Graham Kennedy ~
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
~By William Proxmire ~
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
~By Jean-Bertrand Aristide ~
I love going to the set every day, because Noah Wylie will be there waiting.
~By Sherry Stringfield ~
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 ~
You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for.
~By Craig Bruce ~
Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I'm awaiting virtuous reality.
~By Eli Khamarov ~
It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.
~By Jean Giraudoux ~
You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
~By Ian McKellen ~
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
~By Ben Elton ~
James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
~By Will Ferrell ~
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 ~
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 ~
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~By Robert Benchley ~
As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
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 ~
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
~By Anna Neagle ~
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