Quotes About Waiting

Love delayed is lust augmented.

Under a quiet sky the planet turned, and horses ate, and men slept, and death waited for morning. —

The buzzards were neutral. No matter who won down there, they would win. They had but to wait.

For three days, Shandy Gamble had been lying on his back in the Perigord House awaiting the stranger in the black mustache. Nichols, his name was, and if they were ever going to start cattle buying they had better be moving. The season was already late.

They were waiting for his death. No

Men may plan, they may dream and struggle, but the buzzard has only to wait, for all things come to him in the end.

standing there, looking about. He reached into his vest pocket and took out his watch, glanced at it, then returned it to his pocket and walked back to his office. Jordy Neff was waiting

there. During

He stared at the clock. Sometimes, it seemed the hands didn't move at all. Other times, he'd blink, and it would be half an hour later. Time didn't always make sense at Wayside School.

for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end, said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

Women who dare are few, the women who would stand and wait are many.

Wait for me, my friend. I may be a little late, but I shall surely come.

While we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

There are plenty to love you so try to be satisfied with Father and Mother, Sisters and Brothers, friends and babies till the best lover of all comes to give you your reward.

He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones. Our pulse is set to theirs, and as always on a weekend afternoon we were waiting for my mother to start us ticking away on the evening.

Pierpont wanted to follow him, but he held back, awaiting word of Junius's plans.

Describing an unsatisfactory apartment for which an up-and-comer had to settle:] The flat crouched around him, watching like a depressed relation, waiting for him to take some action.

HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until someone showed up but then he thought he did not know long a day was a summer day in England and how soon afternoon and evening would arrive and he didn't want to find himself on the street when it got dark.

Gustav waited. He wondered whether he wanted to know the thing she was about to tell him, or whether it wasn't better for certain knowledge to remain hidden, so that the mind could conjure its own stories from out of the past, stories it could bear to live with, stories which, in time, took on their own reality and seemed to become true.

till dawn are we.