Quotes About Waiting

If you are not able to set priorities any other way, then getting lost may be the kick in the pants you have been waiting for.

Siena marble. It was only as she reached it that she realised that the Marquis was standing there with his evening cape over his shoulders, obviously waiting for his carriage.

Kindly keep your emotions for some time when I am not present.

When the truth emerges, it can't be ignored. Nor will it wait.

By six-twenty she'd begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn't get through if he tried.

One day there was a misunderstanding about our appointment and when I called for Modigliani, I found him out - but I decided to wait for him a few minutes. I held an armful of red roses. The window, which was above the locked gates of the studio, was open. To while away the time, I started to throw the flowers into the studio. Modigliani didn't come and I left. --Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani

I think of the emptiness of outer space, and the men in their little pods going up there alone, wives and girlfriends left behind. I think of Abel and me lying on the grass, looking up at the stars, and how great that was, but, still, I was always waiting for him to turn his head. To look at me

Men are like parking spaces, the good ones are already taken and the ones left are running out of their metres

How many minutes is shortly?" I asked. "Is it one minute or eight minutes or eleven minutes? On account of if it's one minute, I can wait, probably. But eleven minutes would be out of the question." Mr. Scary walked back to my desk. And he sat me in my chair. I glanced up at him. "All I'm looking for is a rough estimate," I said.

A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and the bracken and wait quietly for death.

When we reached the bus-stop we were a long way behind in the queue and when the bus came it took only half a dozen people. I noticed a group of priests looking down on us from the upper deck and I felt that somehow the Pope and his Dogmas had triumphed after all.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

For a hundred years the Ottoman Empire, called the "Sick Man" of Europe, had been considered moribund by the hovering European powers who were waiting to fall upon the carcass.

I know that I am a charmer, for when I wait Time always stands still.

We gotta wait for your dad to park the car. Then we gotta hear the Epic Saga.

George is standing outside of his favorite bar, Sally's Legs. He's a little early, so he is waiting for it to open. A cop sees him loitering there and gets a little suspicious. "What are you doing?" asks the cop. "I'm waiting for Sally's Legs to open so I can get a drink.

Any man worth having will wait for his woman to be ready. How can I not return the favor?

that night, I don't bother asking the voice if it's time yet. Because for the first time that I can remember, I don't want to know.

Every night for almost as long as I can remember, I go to bed and I ask the voice in my head, "Is it time yet?" And every time, the voice says, "No. Not yet." [...] that night, the voice did not say "No." That night, the voice said, "Almost. Be ready." And then... And then Aneesa. Aneesa. [...] Tonight, I am afraid to ask the voice. I am afraid of what it will say. I am afraid to hear "Yes" and I am afraid to hear "No.

Sous la neige, combien de graines cachées attendent le printemps ?

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

I'm looking for 100 percent proof that there's a spiritual realm, and I ain't seen nothing in my 43 years of living but humans. So until that day, I'll be waiting.

At some point, I went to the studio and nothing happened. It can be really depressing to sit there and wait for the inspiration that doesn't come. I had to start recording rough song ideas before going to the studio. I did that at home whenever I had a good idea.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.