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Quotes About Waiting

Just get through today, I told myself. If life had taught me one thing, it was that the answers would come soon enough.
~ Jojo Moyes
Sometimes, anticipation feels better than fulfillment.
~ Jonar Nader
the Devil]... stands waiting for them, like greedy hungry lions that see their prey, and expect to have it...
~ Jonathan Edwards
mean that." He strode to the door. Wrong door, the one that led back into the front waiting room, rather than
~ Jonathan Kellerman
dim hallway that led to the waiting room, made it to the front door before Helen paused.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Nell'attesa, il mio odio restava lì, intatto, maturo, qualcosa di pieno e quasi succulento dentro di me, una catasta che attendeva un fiammifero.
~ Jonathan Littell
We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.
~ Jonathan Luna
Evil never dies. It merely waits. And it grows stronger in the dark.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Evil don't die. It just waits.
~ Jonathan Maberry
But the colonel said and did nothing as the seconds splintered off the clock and fell like debris on the floor.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Time crawled on as if its legs were broken.
~ Jonathan Maberry
You will be late for your own funeral.
~ Jonathan Nolan
It's not so much that you've lost your faith in time as that time has lost its faith in you
~ Jonathan Nolan
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout." "Whithout what?
~ Jonathan Stroud
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it. Times to move along now, nothing to see. Nothing to see there ever again.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.
~ Jonathan Tropper
The self-help books and websites haven't come up with a proper title for spouses living in the purgatory that exists before the courts have officially ratified your personal tragedy.
~ Jonathan Tropper
But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us. I can see it by the way he lashes his tail.
~ Emily Rodda
The pregnancy test was called First Response, as if an emergency were already waiting for me inside the pink box. Little pink firefighters with little pink ladders waiting to climb up me.
~ Emily Schultz
NURSE (rising and taking her bag from the sofa): Well, I've that confined lady still waiting in Shepperley. (Going into the hall) Toodle-oo! MRS. BRAMSON: Mind you call again Wednesday. In case my neuritis sets in again. NURSE (turning in the hall): I will that. And if paralysis pops up, let me know. Toodle-oo! She marches cheerily out of the front door. MRS. BRAMSON cannot make up her mind if the last remark is sarcastic or not.
~ Emlyn Williams
My toes are going to come," -Mariann The Night Owl
~ Emma Holly