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Quotes About Waiting

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.
~ Sidney Sheldon
Time needs another minute.
~ Sly Stone
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
~ Theodor Adorno
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
~ John Ciardi
Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
~ Albert Camus
So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.
~ Julie Powell
It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.
~ Michael Cera
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
~ Robert Benchley
But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.
~ Sarah Doudney
Only time - whatever that may be - will tell.
~ Stephen Hawking
It was actually 3 years between albums. That seems like a long time to me
~ Todd Barry
Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.
~ Viacheslav Platonov
Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.
~ Jessi Kirby
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.
~ Joseph Addison
The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
~ Anne Rice
I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
~ Carol Burnett
The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.
~ Colleen Haskell
It is simply that person's time. Ours will come in this lifetime or the next. No matter. Continue to practice.
~ Natalie Goldberg
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.
~ Robert Grudin