Quotes About Resilience

I've waited my whole life to be able to have body hair - but I never thought I'd have back hair. But what are you going to do, right?

I think it was 1987 - something like that - or '86, and I thought, 'When you go equity and you're gonna get paid, you'll finally be able to make a living.' But it was not to be so. I always bartended and waited tables so I ended up not doing theater for about a year because nobody would hire me.

I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.

My family had to live in Vienna for three months, then in Italy for another nine, while we waited for refugee status.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

I moved to New York and couldn't get a job as an actor. And waited tables for so long.

I kind of waited for opportunities to be handed to me. I think I was lazy, and when things didn't go right, I just said, 'Oh well.'

If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured.

I didn't work for more than two years. I sat on the couch and waited for work to come in. I got depressed, went into the abyss.

They were tough times and I started working when I was 10 years old, delivering papers and eventually becoming a waiter.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

Let Dion Waiters be him. Correct me when I'm wrong but let me make mistakes.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

I know I am not Braddock's savior, never felt that way, and never will. There's no 'Rudy' style ending waiting for me where I get carried off the field and everything turns out O.K. for me or for Braddock.

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

The Indian race are waiting and praying.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.