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Quotes About Waiting

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
~ Antonio Machado
For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.
~ Arnold Palmer
When it's time for the flowers to bloom, they'll bloom.When it's time for spring to come, it'll come.
~ Atsushi
There's always world enough and time.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You can count on time for two things. One is that it will pass. The other is that it will never shut up.
~ Bill Richardson
I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.
~ Bobby Orr
When you're doing a big-budget movie and you're four on the call sheet, you've got a lot of free time.
~ Chris Rock
All things in the fulness of time
~ Colin Channer
It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
~ Damian Lewis
[On the Dating Handbook] 'With a telescope, some munchies, and a warm blanket, watch for Halley's comet.' Yeah. I like that. There's no time limit. Just sit there and grow old together.
~ David Cross
You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.
~ David O. Russell
Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.
~ Eddie Murphy
Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!
~ Edmund Spenser
But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time alone. ~pg 254
~ Alice Sebold
The Greater Man upstairs know when it's my time. Right now isn't the time.
~ LeBron James
Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
We don't have much time. Mel will be out of the restroom soon." "You've got a magician named Mel?
~ Rick Riordan
In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages.
~ Robert Browning
He had acres of time there.
~ Ron Atkinson
By and by never comes.
~ Saint Augustine
I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.
~ Sara Paretsky
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
~ Sarah Dessen