„What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.“

„To seek the truth. But, as you are seeking and as you are waiting, what will you do, what will you think, what will you practice, what rules will you follow?“

—  Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824

„You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy?“

—  Isabel Allende Chilean writer 1942

Zdroj: The Japanese Lover

„What are you waiting for in order to give up?“

—  Emil M. Cioran, kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

„Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Zdroj: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

„Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?“

—  Orson Scott Card, kniha Ender's Shadow

Zdroj: Ender's Shadow

„Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

Zdroj: Erak's Ransom

„I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you - that you would save yourself.“

—  Laurell K. Hamilton, kniha Narcissus in Chains

Zdroj: Narcissus in Chains

„I still don't know what I was waiting for / A big love to fall down from the sky
Heaven must have sent you / To save me from the rapture“

—  Noel Gallagher British musician 1967

Waiting for the Rapture
Dig Out Your Soul (2008)

„Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.“

—  Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946

Fred Ebb, Zorba (1968)
Misattributed

„The picture is still there and what's more, if you go there — you who never was there — if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there for you, waiting for you. So, Denver, you can't never go there. Never. Because even though it's all over — over and done with — it's going to always be there waiting for you.“

—  Toni Morrison, kniha Beloved

Zdroj: Beloved (1987), Ch. 3

„Wait."
"So what am I supposed to do now?"

"You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey."

(222-223)“

—  Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

Zdroj: American Born Chinese

„Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting“

—  Gregory David Roberts Australian writer and bank robber 1952

„You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.“

—  Haruki Murakami, kniha What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Zdroj: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

„What about a hoverboard?"
"It's waiting on the roof, of course." Dr. Cable snorted. "What is it about you miscreants and those things?“

—  Scott Westerfeld, kniha Specials

Zdroj: Specials

„You take responsibility for us all. Without ever waiting to be told.
So do all good people. That's what it means to be a good person.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)

„Don't sit back and wait for life to happen to you. Have a plan and take the needed steps to create what you want.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 26

„Things are always different than what they might be… If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.“

—  Henry James, kniha The Portrait of a Lady

Zdroj: The Portrait of a Lady

„That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.“

—  Walter Dean Myers American writer 1937 - 2014

Zdroj: Slam!

„Cookie: What are you sad about?Harry: I'm spiritually bankrupt. I'm empty.Cookie: What do you mean?Harry: I'm frightened. I got no soul, you know what I mean? Let me put it this way: when I was younger it was less scary waiting for Lefty than it is waiting for Godot.Cookie: You lost me!Harry: You know that the universe is coming apart? You know about that? You know what a black hole is?Cookie: Yeah. That's how I make my living.“

—  Woody Allen American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician 1935

Deconstructing Harry (1997)