Quotes by Waiting To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence. Anna Kavan secret waiting thinking There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body. But other times I can't wait to actually be 30, just so I can say things like, "I'm 30. I don't have time for that. F - k off!" Anna Kendrick toddler waiting But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. Anna Neagle important waiting feels But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! Anna Neagle waiting opportunity thinking It is a truism of epistolary psychology that, for example, a Christmas thank-you note written on December 26 can say any old thing, but if you wait until February, you are convinced that nothing less than Middlemarch will do. Anne Fadiman old-things psychology waiting How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! Anne Frank waiting wonderful world How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! Anne Frank lovely waiting thinking Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Anne Lamott triumph age waiting Expectations are resentment waiting to happen. Anne Lamott resentment expectations waiting In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott forgiving drinking waiting Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die. Anne Lamott poison drinking waiting It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes. Anne Lamott parent twilight waiting The whistle is always waiting to be blown, and in some ways, it gets me to do better work. Anne Lamott always-waiting waiting way Most of my career has been in sales. I spend 50% or more of my time with customers and employees, and I can't wait for it to be more than 50%. Anne M. Mulcahy employee careers waiting We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon. Anne Morrow Lindbergh missing waiting morning Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going? Anne Morrow Lindbergh enjoy waiting life Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that! Anne Rice guy prayer waiting There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin. Anne Rice next waiting world As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that. Anne Rice halloween waiting littles Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. Anne Sexton silent waiting beautiful «678910111213141516»