Wait Quotes
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[to Latika] I will wait for you, 5 pm everyday at the train station.
Vikas Swarup
Lookin' so innocent,
I might believe you if I didn't know.
Could'a loved you all my life,
If you hadn't left me waiting in the cold.
And you got your share of secrets,
And I'm tired of being last to know.
And now you're asking me to listen
'Cause it's worked each time before.
Taylor Swift
I have always said there are no glass ceilings. I don’t think men are waiting to not allow women to do what they want. I think women have to want it for themselves. And if they want it for themselves, they will have it
Falguni Nayar
The Hour of Death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of Death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.
Yoshida Kenkō
I hadn't originally intended to do any reading, what if I did read one book more or one book less, whether I read or not wouldn't make a difference, I would still be waiting to get cremated.
Gao Xingjian
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I'm a 30 year old waiter/gigolo. Where's the future in that?
Wang Chong
I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness. And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.
Che Noir
He's waiting in purgatory for the day of his rebirth... which happens to be this Thursday!
Huang Ziping
I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay.
I'll wait until November
And sing a song of gray.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?
B. C. Forbes
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I was having dinner at a restaurant in Miami, and when the waiter offered me coffee, he asked me if I took it with or without sugar…I said, ‘Chico, you’re Cuban. How can you even ask that? With sugar!’
Celia Cruz
Trapped in Purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition
Huang Ziping
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You don’t have to ‘wait until.’ You have something right now of value,”
Liz Murray
...why did we wait for any thing? — why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
When I come back to London, I feel really safe and familiar. But sometimes I feel like I'm on standby, waiting to go somewhere else – where something else is happening.
M.I.A.
Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C. J. Walker