Waiting Quotes - Page 9

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  Taylor Swift

  Appreciate, Feels, Mess

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• Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.

  Joel Osteen

  Long, Life Is, Too Short

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• If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.

  Aaron Levie

  Encouragement, Thinking, Ideas

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2013

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• According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

  Bill Gates

  Baby, Children, Names

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• I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

  Diora Baird

  Teacher, Party, School

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• Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Hands, Wings

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• I sit waiting for things that I can't refuse.

  Michael Caine

  Refuse, I Can

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• There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.

  Howard Thurman

  Sound, Finding Your Path, Genuine

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• Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Kissing, Aristocracy, London

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• On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

  Bill Cosby

  Acceptance, Winning, Giving

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• I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

  Robin Williams

  Hey, Osama Bin Laden, Congress

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• I learned quickly enough when to click the shutter, but what I was becoming aware of more slowly was a story-writer's truth: The thing to wait on, to reach for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves... I learned from my own pictures, one by one, and had to; for I think we are the breakers of our own hearts.

  Eudora Welty

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Well, anybody can be a straight man if he hears well. You just have to wait for laughs. A straight man just repeats the questions and the comedian gets the laughs and you just wait for them and don't let them die completely at the tail end of the laugh.

  George Burns

  Men, Laughing, Comedian

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Garments, Robes, Gates

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.39, Lotus Press

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• The White House approved an exemption in Obamacare coverage for Congress and members of their staff. Members complained that the Affordable Care Act will cost them thousands extra a year in premiums. Wait a minute. It's their bill. If it's too expensive, why did they name it the Affordable Care Act?

  Jay Leno

  Years, Names, Obamacare

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• Sometimes I call directors. Sometimes I just meet with them. It just happens. It's not that I'm pushy. It comes naturally. But I go ahead. I don't stay in my armchair, waiting for the phone to ring.

  Juliette Binoche

  Phones, Directors, Sometimes

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  If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

  Willie Nelson

  Dream, Gone, Tomorrow

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• Prayer allows us to wait without worry.

  John Ortberg

  Prayer, Worry

  John Ortberg, Stephen Sorenson, Amanda Sorenson (2003). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat: A 6-session Journey on Learning to Trust God”, p.195, Zondervan

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• It is good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go. There are so many moments in life when you are free to pray. When you are waiting for the cashier in the supermarket, getting mad because he or she doesn't hurry, say a little prayer: 'Lord, Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.' Take that prayer with you wherever you go.

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Prayer, Mad

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• What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Healthy, Dying

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• I feel like everybody's waiting for a job y'know, you can make a movie on your phone. And so there really is no reason to worry about how to get in with people- and you can do that, there's a lot to learn working for people -but you can just make a movie, where in the old days that was completely impossible.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, Phones, Worry

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• I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended. There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.

  E. B. White

  Men, Waiting Rooms, Years

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• Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Sky, Black, Dawn

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• Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Lying, Opportunity, Made

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• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  Jill Scott

  Luxury, Musician, Actors

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