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Quotes About Waiting

Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
~ Lionel Blue
Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
~ Mike Wallace
In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.
~ Michelle Paver
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
~ Rufus Sewell
There's something about just hanging around when it comes to success on the Internet.
~ Evan Williams
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.
~ Fay Weldon
You wait for months or half a year to put the record out and thats always the hard part for me because Im pretty eager to get these songs in peoples ears.
~ Colter Wall
The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
~ Dakota Goyo
Every actor who's been around long enough knows that when something bad happens in this business, it's always for a reason. Really, the hardest part is waiting to find out what the reason is.
~ Rory O'Malley
The most popular health care plan in the country is Medicare. It delivers the best care at the lowest cost - it's better than any other part of our health care system. But most people can only get it when they're over 65. I don't think you should have to wait that long.
~ Chris Murphy
My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.
~ Roisin Murphy
There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.
~ Annie Murphy
I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.
~ Jon Bernthal
Until the time is right, disappear we will.
~ George Lucas
But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ George Lucas
He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.
~ George MacDonald
Strange dim memories, which will not abide identification, often, through misty windows of the past, look out upon me in the broad daylight, but I never dream now. It may be, notwithstanding, that, when most awake, I am only dreaming the more! But when I wake at last into that life which as a mother her child, carries life in its bosom, I shall know that I wake, and shall doubt no more. I wait; asleep or awake, I wait.
~ George MacDonald
All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
~ George MacDonald
the road is difficult. - But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.
~ George MacDonald
The days glided by. The fervid Summer slid away round the shoulder of the world, and made room for her dignified matron sister; my lady Autumn swept her frayed and discoloured train out of the great hall-door of the world, and old brother Winter, who so assiduously waits upon the house, and cleans its innermost recesses, was creeping around it, biding his time, but eager to get to his work.
~ George MacDonald
counsel:--Go to the Lady of Sorrow, and `take with both hands'* what she will give you. Yonder lies her cottage. She is not in it now, but her door stands open, and there is bread and water on her table. Go in; sit down; eat of the bread; drink of the water; and wait there until she appear. Then ask counsel of her, for she is true, and her wisdom is great.
~ George MacDonald
You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now.
~ George MacDonald
When you have no choice, you must just buckle down to misfortune Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and wait.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Twenty years later, the boy who used to stick himself with pens was standing under the sky in a for­eign street where he had never been, waiting for some unknown, impossible event. There were stars: an infinity of stars. It was absurd - absurd enough to make you scream; but it was a hostile absurdity.
~ Georges Bataille