Waiting For You Quotes - Page 2

• You. I've spent my life waiting for you.' -Keenan

  Melissa Marr

  Waiting, Wicked Lovely

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• When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Home, Thinking, Waiting

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• When you approach the tabernacle remember that he has been waiting for you for twenty centuries.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Christian, Holy Eucharist, Waiting

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• So when you think you're the only one who can't find love in this world, tell yourself there's another one who's waiting for you somewhere.

  Rod Stewart

  Sadness, Thinking, Finding Love

  Song: Somebody Special, Album: Foolish Behaviour

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• It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

  Jean Giraudoux

  People, Waiting, Odd

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

  Cindy Sherman

  Travel, Rip, Fall

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• Still hiding and afraid to let go. Waiting for you to find me uncover me and show me the way.

  Susane Colasanti

  Letting Go, Soulmate, Waiting

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• A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have to hold it in your hands, because a book sits there, waiting for you, whether you think you want it or not, because of all these things, a book is a friend. It’s not just the content, but the physical being of a book that is there for you always and unconditionally.

  Mo Willems

  Book, Thinking, Hands

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• You’re going to be my grandmother.” “You silly child. In my heart, I’ve been your grandmother for years. I’ve just been waiting for you to make it official.

  Julia Quinn

  Children, Silly, Heart

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• And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would be all over with life and everything that gave our existence meaning and tension. A secret of the kind that lurks between the two of us has extraordinary power. It burns through the fabric of life like a scorching beam, and yet at the same time it also gives it tensile strength. It forces us to live.

  Sándor Márai

  Fabric Of Life, Two, Giving

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• Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

  Lionel Shriver

  Home, Night, Waiting

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.46, Counterpoint Press

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• You can't deny that there's something between us." "No. There is. When I saw you today--I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of that waiting rushed through me in a second. That's something... but I don't know if it's certainty.

  David Levithan

  Waiting, Today, Saws

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• For a while I thought I was the dragon. I guess I can tell you that now. And, for a while, I thought I was the princess, cotton candy pink, sitting there in my room, in the tower of the castle, young and beautiful and in love and waiting for you with confidence but the princess looks into her mirror and only sees the princess, while I’m out here, slogging through the mud, breathing fire, and getting stabbed to death. Okay, so I’m the dragon. Big deal. You still get to be the hero. You get magic gloves! A fish that talks! You get eyes like flashlights!

  Richard Siken

  Beautiful, Hero, Princess

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• I was afraid I was wrong, that you would change your mind any second. I’ve been looking for a suitable alternative, but the truth is …”—Maxon looked me in the eyes again, unwavering—“there’s only you. Maybe I’m not really looking, maybe they aren’t right for me. It doesn’t matter. I just know I want you. And that terrifies me. I’ve been waiting for you to take back the words, to beg to leave.

  Kiera Cass

  Eye, Waiting, Mind

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• I called. Why wasn't anyone here?"- Elena We were here." Clay said. "Around, anyway. You should have left a message." I did. Two hours ago." - Elena Well that explains it. I've been out, by the gate all day, waiting for you, and you know Jer never checks the machine."- Clayton I didn't know how Clay had known I was coming back today when I hadn't left a message. Nor did I question why he'd spent the entire day waiting at the gate. Clay's behavior couldn't be measured by human standard's of normalcy... or by any standards of normalcy at all. Bitten

  Kelley Armstrong

  Should Have, Two, Waiting

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• You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

  Walt Whitman

  Mean, Who I Am, Blood

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women!

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Home, Fighting, People

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• I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Years, Waiting, Forever

  Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie”, p.34, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone." "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it." "Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

  Jack Canfield

  Jobs, Inspirational Life, Believe

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• I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

  J. Lynn

  Waiting, Firsts, First Time

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• Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Stars, Waiting, Violin

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Summer, Home, Night

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• Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Doors, Waiting, Care

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.179, A&C Black

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• If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall follow you. I will build a willow hut at your gate; I will sleep under your window; I will be waiting for you at your own front door.

  Eloisa James

  Sleep, Doors, House

  Eloisa James (2011). “When Beauty Tamed The Beast: Number 2 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Angry grizzly bears are going to look tame next to what is waiting for you at home." I snapped the phone shut and placed it in her waiting hand. "I'm done.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Home, Phones

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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