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Quotes About Waiting

it was at least three weeks before I got the telegram and could start regretting.
~ Margaret Atwood
Waiting is also a place: it is wherever you wait. For me it's this room. I am a blank, here, between parentheses. Between other people The knock comes at my door. Cora, with the tray.
~ Margaret Atwood
This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for—the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing.
~ Margaret Atwood
When we are ready, the gods send what we need.
~ Margaret George
I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman—and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Longing hearts could only stand so much of longing.
~ Margaret Mitchell
As to why I have made no further advances,' he pursued blandly, as though she had not signified that the conversation was at an end, 'I am waiting for you to grow up a little more. You see, it wouldn't be much fun for me to kiss you now and I'm quite selfish about my pleasures. I never fancied kissing children.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life, waiting to catch you between husbands.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a cell phone case.
~ P. Anastasia, Fire Starter
I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.
~ Lorena Ochoa
All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
~ John Calvin
Time itself is the solution to all problems.
~ P. V. Narasimha Rao
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
So much of growing up is an unbearable waiting. A constant longing for another time. Another season.
~ Sonia Sanchez
The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.
~ Max Lucado
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
~ Vivienne Westwood
All comes at the proper time to him who knows how to wait.
~ Vincent de Paul
Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
~ Rumi
No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.
~ Joel Osteen
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
~ Warren Buffett
Even miracles take a little time.
~ Walt Disney