Quotes about wait
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Suzanne Weyn photo
Christopher Paul Curtis photo
David Levithan photo

“Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Elie Wiesel photo
Brandon Sanderson photo
Markus Zusak photo
Alice Sebold photo
Meg Cabot photo
Richelle Mead photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Ann Brashares photo
Nick Hornby photo
Haruki Murakami photo

“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”

Variant: I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

A.A. Milne photo
Zora Neale Hurston photo
Rick Riordan photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Joseph Campbell photo

“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.”

Jenny Nimmo (1944) British author of children's books

Source: Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

Rachel Caine photo
Ernest Hemingway photo

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”

Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer

Source: Drinking: A Love Story

Walker Percy photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Winston S. Churchill photo

“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”

Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/LaFrance.html).
The Second World War (1939–1945)

Patrick Rothfuss photo

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Junot Díaz photo

“Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)”

Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer

Source: Kill the Dead

Rachel Caine photo
David Levithan photo

“Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

John Irving photo
Samuel Johnson photo

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

April 10, 1776, p. 305
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III

Dan Brown photo
Marya Hornbacher photo
Alice Sebold photo
Markus Zusak photo
Helen Fielding photo
Tyler Perry photo

“Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
Erica Jong photo
Jorge Luis Borges photo

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
Wally Lamb photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Sophie Kinsella photo
Robert Jordan photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Alyson Nöel photo
Alice Walker photo
Rick Riordan photo
Megan Abbott photo
Seamus Heaney photo
Alexandre Dumas photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Markus Zusak photo

“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Paulo Coelho photo

“Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Elizabeth Gilbert photo
Rick Riordan photo
Derek Landy photo
Libba Bray photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Henry James photo
Joe Hill photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Rachel Caine photo
Rick Warren photo

“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Jeff Lindsay photo
Saul Williams photo
Joe Hill photo

“I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Paulo Coelho photo
Andy Warhol photo

“The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Variant: The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting.

Paulo Coelho photo
Walter Mosley photo

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”

Walter Mosley (1952) American writer

Source: The Long Fall

Dorothy Koomson photo
Marguerite Duras photo
Khaled Hosseini photo
Lois Lowry photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Richelle Mead photo
Jodi Picoult photo