Quotes About Waiting

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the 'right' thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It's like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

People in Tel Aviv can not imagine, but in 1990, here in Leipzig or Dresden, whoever wanted to buy a car had to wait 14 years. The East Germans worked like people in the West, but the fruits of their labor were harvested by a criminal regime.

I'm always a bit late, but I don't mind that, because it means that whoever I'm meeting is already there.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.

I have so many good offers in my country or, let's say, in Europe. I just wait for the best offers, like I always did. And if this can be in Hollywood, why not?

I am nearly 40 and still unmarried because my wife would be the one who has been a movie buff like me since she was born.

My wife and I are always concerned about how long it's going to take to eat out. You just don't know.

Ten minutes before starting a game in Akron, they said, 'Sit down, you're done.' Then I went to Arizona and sat there. There was no one to tell me what to do. I just had to wait.

Spending time in airports and planes is probably my least favourite part of being a tennis player.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

You can find me sleeping on the floor at Terminal B at the Atlanta airport any time.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

I'm terrible with patience.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

So, I didn't get moved up because of celebrity status or anything like that. I got in line, and I passed the test. And they realized that I was sick enough, and as soon as the liver became available, I got one.

A fine, fine book, lucid, unsmug, amazingly comprehensive. Reading [it] I felt over and over again that this was the book I had been waiting for. —The New Yorker

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.

That cold, dead look with something behind it like waiting

some time. Been prayin' for 'im, though. You

cheque. Ya llegaron esos tipos, pero primero veremos a Barsut. ¡Que esperen, qué diablo! ¿Se da cuenta usted de mi situación? Con ese dinero el mundo es nuestro.

Las mesas estaban llenas de tiras que carpetiaban un drama imposible. Salimos, y entonces observamos que todos los balcones estaban llenos de gente que esperaban el panorama de un tiroteo barato.

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