Not Waiting Around For Someone Quotes

1. "They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet."
Author: Boris Pasternak

2. "I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN."
Author: Celia Rivenbark

3. "When you feel like an oddball, it never really leaves you. Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves - the misfits."
Author: Chris Pine

4. "I'm going home now,' she said out loud, perhaps to no one, perhaps to the universe. 'I'm tired of being afraid. I'm not going to wait around anymore for someone to save me. My mother and father and aunts and sisters are waiting for me, just up ahead. It isn't too far, not really. So I'm going to walk down this dark road by myself, and God help anyone who tries to stop me.'Then she clicked on the flashlight and strode into the gloaming."
Author: David Bowles

5. "Sometimes it is easier to play someone who is far away from you."
Author: Dougray Scott

6. "My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me."
Author: Elliott Carter

7. "I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself."
Author: Ice Cube

8. "There are clear distinctions between what it takes to be decent, what it takes to be good, what it takes to be great, and what it takes to be among the best. If your goal is to be mediocre, then you have a considerable margin for error. You can get depressed when fired and mope around waiting for someone to call with a new job offer. If you hurt your toe, you can take six weeks watching television and eating potato chips."
Author: Josh Waitzkin

9. "?Happy endings don't come cheap. It isn't enough to know you've found your soul mate, if you believe in that kind of thing. I do, because I have one. You have to make it happen. You have to will the whole world to bend around you and the person you love. You have to kick fate in the teeth and poke fortune's eyes out. You have to fight and claw and scrap your way to her side. You can't let anyone or anything or any reason - supernatural or otherwise - stand in your way?."
Author: Kami Garcia And Margaret Stohl

10. "It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it."
Author: Libba Bray

11. "They say that whatever is meant to be will happen. That if a love is true, it will always come back to you. Bullshit. You can't wait around for love to come back or for something to happen. You have to make it happen. Have you ever heard of someone accomplishing their dreams by waiting around because 'what is meant to be will happen'?No.Those people fought for what they wanted and loved. They didn't lean back and wait for their dreams to come rushing at them. Each and every one made their dream come true. They found love because they were searching for it. They didn't let anything get in their way. Every day for the rest of mylife, I will fight for my love and my dreams. I will work to make things stick together instead of working to make them fall apart."
Author: Lindsay Paige

12. "And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn't ever feel like I'm just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it's good for us all to remember that we don't need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We're fantastic."
Author: Liz Tuccillo

13. "When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm."
Author: Matthew McConaughey

14. "No buts," he said, "because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn't get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did.."
Author: Nicholas Sparks

15. "I also had a father, who had loved for a long time without being nearby. How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life."
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan

16. "It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
Author: Roger Zelazny

17. "You walk around like a dog waiting to be kicked. And when someone does, you pout and cry like you didn't deserve it.""No one deserves to be kicked.""You do if you don't think you're worth any better."
Author: Sarah Dessen

18. "... sometimes I can feel it, the way we arepouring slowly toward a curve and around itthrough something dark and soft, and we are bound toeach other."
Author: Sharon Olds

19. "Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based."
Author: Vandana Shiva

20. "People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated."
Author: Veronica Roth

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