Top 535 Wait Quotes

The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time.
Anatoly Karpov
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Baltasar Gracian
I’m pretty forgiving, so sometimes I forget how evil people were to me. Then I think, ‘Wait a minute. Don’t let them get you.’ Then I hit ‘ignore’ on FaceBook.
Alexis Knapp
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
If you wait this long to put an album out, you’d better be sure you tried your best.
Nelly Furtado
Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.
Kat Edmonson
I don’t want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.
Max Cannon
Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can’t talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
Kirk Douglas
I don’t wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
Gene Simmons
I have a Viking stove. The color is butter lemon, and I had to wait several months for it, because that color wasn’t available and I really wanted butter lemon! But I don’t know that it’s seriously ever been cooked on. I mean, I make tea every morning. Does that count?
Andy Cohen
After school, I’d wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I’d be like, ‘I guess I’ll walk home.’ I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.
Whitney Cummings
You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair
Women have to take more control of their careers. They can’t just wait to be cast in a film.
Richard LaGravenese
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Alan Cohen
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Jules Renard
Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don’t want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.
Deontay Wilder
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.
Stephen Hawking
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I’m not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.
Gene Cernan
Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.
Henri Nouwen
When I go to clubs, I don’t have to wait outside.
Fetty Wap
I love what I do. I’m passionate about what I do. I live for what I do. And every morning, I can’t wait to stop sleeping and to jump up and get out of bed and start doing what I do.
Paul Heyman
Acting – I’m good at it, but it’s not my passion. Music, I’m not as good at, but that’s my passion. I think I’m just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.
Israel Broussard
Music is my main goal, but I’m not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don’t want to do it because it’s the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.
River Phoenix
If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.
Raghuram Rajan
If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
James Allen
All things come round to him who will but wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I grew up at the very tail end of the vinyl era, and at the time, I remember, we couldn’t wait for CD to come along because vinyl was so frustrating. You would buy the record, take it home, and it would have a scratch, and you would have to take it back again.
Steven Wilson
I love dresses, and I’ve definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
Taylor Swift
I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it’s time to say goodbye.
Gary Sheffield
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.
Ken Kesey
Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenc

Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.
Paul Kagame
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Norman Cousins
I was quite emotional when I finished my lap, but had to wait for other drivers to cross the line to hear whether I’d actually done it. It feels very special, but I acknowledge that the old master, Nigel Mansell, took his 14 poles from only 16 races.
Sebastian Vettel
You never know what’s going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.
Aaron Donald
I used to watch Monte Irvin play when I was a kid. I idolized him. I used to wait in front of the ballpark just for him to pass by so I could see him.
Roberto Clemente
We don’t put gender roles on our marriage and our relationship. If I’m working a lot and Cory’s home, he will put Cree to bed, and if dishes need to be washed, he will wash them. So it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to wait until my wife gets home, and she’s going to be doing all that.’
Tia Mowry
People don’t have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.
Robert Mapplethorpe
I don’t want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.
Freddy Adu
It’s not like it’s hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school.
Sarah Jessica Parker
I want to be an actress when I grow up. Actually, I don’t want to wait until I’m grown up. I want to be a child actress. I want to be an actress before I’m 13.
Lucy Boynton
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
Ursula Burns
I’m in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I’m around we’ll take a look.
Buck Owens
I think it’s important not to grow up too fast. I’m 26 now, and I still can’t wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn’t buried too deeply in me.
Laura Haddock
By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don’t need to wait for our grandchildren’s questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.
Adora Svitak
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.
Anna Netrebko
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don’t really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Navid Negahban
You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.
Sam Donaldson
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
Jeffrey Sachs
I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.
Josh Duhamel
‘Work and wait’, ‘work and wait’ is what God says to us in creation.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
I can’t wait to play the Hammerstein shows. Things have been exploding in the last week, and that’s going to be the exclamation point.
Trey Anastasio
I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don’t know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.
Julie Christie
I’ve been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren’t that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it’s not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
Kirsten Dunst
Teddy Riley was telling everyone I was his female rapper, but he never came through. And Michael Bivens promised me all kinds of stuff but then he told me to wait.
Da Brat
I don’t write on demand – I wait for inspiration to come.
Jill Scott
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
Tabatha Coffey
I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
Rene Auberjonois
As a creative person, you want to be creative, you know? You don’t want to constantly wait around – a lot of movies fall apart, or there’s just not as much out there as there used to be.
Franka Potente
My experience with casting children is that… the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.
Wes Anderson
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That’s probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
Barbara Kingsolver