Quotes About Waiting

I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the time we knew best, that stretch of day going from dusk to dark. It seemed like we were always waiting for nighttime here. I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

Life is long, just because you don't get your chance right when it comes, doesn't mean It won't come.

It was easier to just float along as if sleeping that whole first part of the year, going through the motions and staring like one of those ghostly dolls, waiting for something to wake me up.

EXPLORING A REAL WORLD APPLICATION FOR WAIT

Why doesn't Sunday ever wait until I'm tired?

I'm still irritated at the end of the day when my brother, Jonah, and I are standing outside school, waiting for our dad to pick us up. It doesn't help when Brandon says, "Bye, Crabby Abby," as he strolls past me. He walks home from school by himself. Either his parents trust him to make his way home alone or they think he's awful, too, and are hoping he gets kidnapped.

My optimism is like an old cat that likes to disappear for days, but I always expect it to return.

All life was weather, a waiting through the hot where events had no significance for the cool that was soft and caressing like a woman's hand on a tired forehead. Down in Georgia there is a feeling—perhaps inarticulate—that this is the greatest wisdom of the South—so after a while the Jelly-bean turned into a poolhall on Jackson Street where he was sure to find a congenial crowd who would make all the old jokes—the ones he knew.

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.

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

Fine. Seer knows best, even if he is nuts. Maybe I can stand to wait a few more... whoa. What the hell happened to my car? -Melissa

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Why are you here, Katrina dear, In daylight clear, At your lover's door? [3685] No, no! When, It will let in, A maid, and then, Let out a maid no more!

You misplaced one of your men," Chad remarked. "I did?" "He'll be along shortly with the baggage. He'll need to be untied.

would try and stop by. It looks

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes.

God is good to all of us. He knows what we need better than we do. And just because he thinks it is better not to give you what you want right now doesn't mean he isn't answering you. You shall have what you ask for but not until the right time comes." - Grandmamma

There are devils in hell waiting to plunge red-hot pitchforks into your guts, Sergeant Berry.' 'No doubt, but until I get there I've a job to do.

The Snow Leopard's Tale is mesmeric. Tom McIntyre has compressed so many things into so few pages that I can think of only a few other short books that can compare. It was worth the wait for all of us who look forward to reading anything with his name under the title.

God had already made me realise that His mercy does not grow weary of waiting for some souls and that He enlightens them only slowly. So I took good care not to anticipate Him.