Quotes About Waiting

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

I'm like a toll booth. Sooner or later, you have to come to me.

There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.

History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares. Sometimes the gate-crashers prove to be the life of the party.

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.

I'm stuck in a waiting room with the TV on the same channel all day, and I'm never called in for my appointment.

I did not know how to help her; I was not the hero for whom she waited, the man whose touch could dissolve the wall around her and set her free.

My vision is warping and splintering again; I can feel the darkness waiting for you, feel myself sliding inch by inch, fingertip by fingertip, back into the world of monsters and ghosts out of which the Curia lifted me. Sometimes when I look at him, Thaddeus has the head of a raven.

Noirance isn't about not being able to see. It's about not being able to find your way out of the dark. Being lost in a maze. Or being the creature in the heart of the maze who waits for the lost to come to it as they always will.

Everyone knows you never find love when you go looking for it. You have to wait for it to find you.

I saw William Blackett's escaping sail already far from land, and Captain Littlepage was sitting behind his closed window as I passed by, watching for some one who never came. I tried to speak to him, but he did not see me. There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

Can the theater teach us to wait? To forestall our satisfaction? Poems teach us how to wait. The natural world makes us wait. Erik Satie teaches us how to wait. And so does much music. Will YouTube teach us how to wait? Will YouTube teach us how to die?  

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Sometimes the shortest journeys take longest, don't they?

The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin

I did not care. I cared for nothing, now. I had kept up my nerve and my spirit, all that time. I had waited for my chance of escaping and got nowhere.

But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.

Much, much stress results from your wanting to make things happen before their times have come.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. LAMENTATIONS 3 : 22 – 26

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. My soul waits for the Lord. —PSALM 130:5– 6

there is a gold mine of Peace deep within you, waiting to be tapped. Take time to delve into the riches of My residing Presence.

This is why she can't get up. As long as she stays in bed everything's on hold.

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.