Quotes About Waiting

There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits

A perfect method of adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

All year you look forward to the summer, and when it finally comes, what happens? Not much.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

The presence of gods has been enormously comforting as we have continued to dutifully cross the stage of life, going about or daily tasks, yet knowing that Pale Death was waiting in the wings.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

What do you do then? When it's like that/" "Nothing. I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. that there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay." "Another day." "Yes.

Nothing, I just lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever, that there will be another day and after that, yet another day

Although both annie and liam were ready to leave early the next morning, they had to wait for Prince Andreas, who was still sleeping. Annie wanted to go wake him, but when she asked Lady Hillary for the location of his room, the lady-in-waiting looked shocked and told her that it wasn't proper.

Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

a book with a bookmark inside implies someone has merely gone away, and will be back to finish it soon. Removing the bookmark takes on a horrible finality

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

I talked to you about the difficulty of being Jewish, which is the same as the difficulty of writing. For Judaism and writing are but the same waiting, the same hope, the same wearing out.

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,And lend me leave to come unto my love?

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

GENNARO Ha da passa' 'a nuttata.»

The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.

Somewhere under the heavy burden of water going nowhere, under the silence, the old rocks of the river channel waited for the promised resurrection. Promised by whom? Promised by Capt. Joseph "Seldom Seen" Smith; by Sgt. George Washington Hayduke; by Dr. Sarvis and Ms. Bonnie Abbzug, that's whom. But

Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind.

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager

Sister Anne, do you see anyone coming?

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.