Waiting For Something Quotes - Page 2

• Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Interesting, Waiting

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• Currently, it was leading him through a neighborhood that was on the downside of whatever curve you hoped you'd bought your property on the upside of. Graffiti and garbage were everywhere here. They were everywhere in the city, if it came to that, but elsewhere the garbage was better quality, and the graffiti was close to being correctly spelled. The whole area was waiting for something to happen, like a really bad fire.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fire, Curves, Cities

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• I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

  Doug Davidson

  Unimportant Things, Waiting, Negative

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• This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular.
  Just someone who wanted me.
  Not sex.
  But me.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Sex, Waiting, Wanted

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• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  A. A. Milne

  Men, Thinking, Average

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• Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are either stressfully waiting for something - more money, security, affection - or you are living from your deep heart, opening as the entire moment, and giving what you most deeply desire to give, without waiting.

  David Deida

  Spiritual, Money, Stress

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life and Death and Love and Sex”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Andrade [who was looking after wartime inventions] is like an inverted Micawber, waiting for something to turn down.

  Henry Tizard

  Science, Waiting, Invention

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• This is my new hobby. I watch my life depart minute by minute. I anticipate the end of everything and anything -- a conversation, a class, track practice, darkness -- only to be left with more clock-watching to take its place. I'm continually waiting for something better that never comes. Maybe it would help if I knew what I wanted.

  Megan McCafferty

  Practice, Class, Track

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.77, Crown

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• We're all sinking in the same boat here. We're all bored and desperate and waiting for something to happen. Waiting for life to get better. Waiting for things to change. Waiting for that one person to finally notice us. We're all waiting. But we also need to realize that we all have the power to make those changes for ourselves.

  Susane Colasanti

  Change, Bored, Waiting

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.33, Penguin

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• The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Loneliness, Knowing, People

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• I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Ocean, Color, Waiting

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Waiting, Relief, Too Much

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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• But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.

  Tammara Webber

  Waiting, Scar, Poke

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Between the Lines”, p.180, Tammara Webber

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• He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Validation, Waiting, Feelings

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.74, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

  Kate Atkinson

  Waiting, Realizing, Feels

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.490, Random House

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• You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.

  Lucy Christopher

  Dog, Eye, Giving

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• She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

  Marguerite Duras

  Years, Waiting, Might

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.57, Pantheon

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• Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.

  Lauren Oliver

  Color, Sky, White

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Delirium”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

  Joyce Meyer

  Letting Go, Attitude, Believe

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• The woods were deserted that day. The stones stood still and silent, as though they were waiting for something. At the center of them all, a jagged piece of amber glowed in the growing darkness. Lights fizzed softly around it, turning pink, orange, purple, blue. No one saw it. No one ever did. Why would they? No one knoew about its magic, not anymore. They had forgotten all about such magic a long, long time ago. About the same time they stopped believing in faries. How foolish.

  Liz Kessler

  Believe, Orange, Light

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• You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Waiting, Want, Action

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• It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

  Michael Cera

  Long, Focus, Waiting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Waiting, Crafts

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Boys, Night, Class

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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