Quotes About Waiting

Desire, a venerable teacher had once told him, is this: To wait beneath the stars for someone to return, alive, from the field of battle.

What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.

Grafton was silent, looking at nothing for a moment or two. Finally, he said, "Soetoro has been waiting for a terror strike so he could declare martial law, become a dictator, and fix all the things he doesn't like about America.

historical. Outside, waiting to be seated: Illness, Boredom, Sorrow. Loneliness already seated, dining with a group.

Nothing prayed for – it is life's strictest and least graceful rule – comes to you at the time of praying.

Only time (whatever that may be) will tell.

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

The over-all impression is one of a town that is waiting to die. It is not enough, these days, to say that Chamberlain will never be the same. It may be closer to the truth to say that Chamberlain will simply never again be.

Let evil wait for the day on which it must fall.

Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...

There's a door in the wall. The door is covered with ivy. The ivy is dead. She waits.

Wait or me where the trees clear and the water's sweet. I'll come to ye, ay, as sure as dawn makes shadows run west.

I can sense those memories . . . waiting to be born. They're like clouds filled with rain. Only this rain would be very dirty. The plants that grew after a rain like that would be monsters.

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God's mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

The fear of the unknown was eclipsed by the gladness that came of taking action, of doing something rather than waiting, of following what seemed to be the call of my life.

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful and wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.