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Quotes About Waiting

Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
~ Henri Nouwen
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.
~ Marvin Gaye
I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.
~ Dick York
Do not rush, for God's secret is patience. Everything that is meant to be, will come at the designated time.
~ Leon Brown
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us.
~ Osbert Sitwell
Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.
~ Jean Monnet
The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to wait-man proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side.
~ Jean Monnet
Time is my greatest enemy.
~ Evita Peron
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
~ Benjamin Harrison
You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
~ Dorothea Lange
How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.
~ J.P. Vaswani
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
~ Adrian Rogers
It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
~ Al Pacino
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
~ Henry Van Dyke
You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.
~ Charles II of England
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
~ Agatha Christie
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
~ Don DeLillo
It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
~ J. K. Rowling
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
~ Calvin Trillin
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.
~ Rodney Collin
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.
~ John Burroughs