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Quotes About Waiting

I'll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I waited two thousand years for you, Grace Alexander," he whispered in her ear. "And you were worth every second of it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
He's out there waiting for us. We his the street, and we're ducks in a barrel. (Steele) Isn't that fish in a barrel? (Syd) Don't fuck with my metaphors right now, Syd. Can't you see that I'm under stress? (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm going to go out there and wait until you two are dressed. (Tiernan) Why don't you keep walking until you get to the other side of the front door? (Adron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Much of the time, as an actor, you sit around waiting. Most of your life and career, you're waiting for your agent or your manager to call you.
~ Dylan McDermott
At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.
~ Frank Warren
I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.
~ Frederick Lenz
You are waiting for something good to come; but you know, if the life is also waiting, then nothing will happen, nothing will come!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.
~ Misty Upham
Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
~ Poul Anderson
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.
~ Orson Scott Card
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.
~ Ray Bradbury
A bottle of wine Still to be drunk, A bundle of thoughts Still to be thunk.
~ Robert Breault
At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
~ T. S. Eliot
Patience is the First Lesson.
~ Thomas T. Riley
We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.
~ Joyce Meyer
I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.
~ Jude Deveraux
Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.
~ Junot Diaz
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.
~ Lalita Tademy
One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.
~ Laura Lee
I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit
~ Laura Marling
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.
~ Leonard Cohen