Top 535 Wait Quotes

A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck
A seed knows how to wait… A seed is alive while it waits.
Hope Jahren
There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.
Henrique Capriles Radonski
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
Colm Toibin
Whenever I have to do something, I try to minimise the time it takes me to do it. I just cannot wait.
Sebastian Vettel
I still think ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the greatest literary achievement in my lifetime. Like so many other people, I couldn’t wait for the second and then the third book. Nothing like it had ever been written.
Christopher Lee
When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, ‘Hell yes, I’m going to captain this ship.’ Then I was like, ‘Oh, wait, you’re losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.’ That’s Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.
Becky Lynch
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don’t wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
Andy Weir
In the countryside, litter doesn’t have a friend. It doesn’t have anybody who’s saying, ‘Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.’
Bill Bryson
And as I reinvent myself and I’m constantly curious about everything, I can’t wait to see what’s around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
Pam Grier
I like strong, strong women who don’t go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don’t come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I’m not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.
Rose McGowan
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
E. W. Howe
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
Anna Neagle
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might – someday. But we’ll have to wait and see.
Zosia Mamet
I just can’t wait to get out there on stage. There’s no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it – even if we’re crying.
Loretta Swit
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I’m midway through a book before it happens. However, I don’t wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I’m not delivering lambs on the farm.
Barbara Kingsolver
My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.
Sean Astin
I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl’s. I can’t wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.
Zendaya
While it is a great platform to showcase your talent, YouTubing is not as easy as it looks. To be successful, remember to ensure your content is what you can relate to, and not what is in trend. Wait for your audience to find you.
Bhuvan Bam
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
Countee Cullen
I saw ‘The Exorcist’ at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren’t in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.
Sean Bean
There’s no bigger gaming franchise on the console than ‘Call of Duty’, and we can’t wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.
Emmett Shear
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
Gabriela Mistral
My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far a

My oldest step-son wants to direct or produce. As far as being an actor, I’ve already told them they have to wait until they’re 18; I won’t take them to auditions.
Elizabeth Perkins
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
T. S. Eliot
Yes, I want children and I can’t wait to have that closeness with someone – to bring someone into the world. But, I really don’t know when.
Dominic Cooper
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
Erma Bombeck
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.
Catherine Deneuve
When you first fall in love it’s so thrilling, you can’t wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.
Jane Campion
Honestly my brother has always supported me through everything and I can’t wait to support him 100 per cent.
A. J. Pritchard
I’m the type of person that doesn’t like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, ‘I wish my label would book me some studio time,’ if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?
Tinashe
After a great save or a mistake by a defender, I prefer not to shout on him; I prefer to wait and say it inside of the dressing room. I was always like that. I am relaxed, I try to be normal after a mistake, and when I make a mistake, I don’t want people coming to me on the pitch shouting at me.
David de Gea
I’ve been quite lucky in that I’ve managed to tick off a few of my dream roles, really. Beyond that, you wait for the next script to come in that will have the dream role that you don’t know exists yet, I suppose.
David Tennant
I don’t want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
Jack Herer
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you’re impotent. She can’t wait to disprove it.
Cary Grant
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra – you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
Alan Moore
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let’s wait. I’m not holding my breath.
Barbara Broccoli
A state school class can only learn as fast as its thickest child. Your kid misses stuff, mine has to wait while yours catches up.
Katie Hopkins
The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
Jacques Lacan
What to do when inspiration doesn’t come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.
John Huston
Ideally, I’m also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.
Heather Donahue
I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.
Christa B. Allen
‘Gossip Girl’ came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn’t wait for the next one.
Cecily von Ziegesar
We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don’t understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back.
Jean-Claude Juncker
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
Pankaj Mishra
I like the color green, and the WBC belt is green, so I can’t wait to get that belt.
Oleksandr Usyk
Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don’t wait for anyone to praise you.
Jack Canfield
I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
Derrick Lewis
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.
Anthony Burgess
A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn’t mean she can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.
Cher
The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!
Frank Gorshin
Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from… from… wait, what was I saying?
Bill Keller
I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can't

I always loved stage combat at drama school so I can’t wait to get on set and kick some evil monsters into the next dimension!
Pearl Mackie