Quotes About Waiting

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

It was as though we were a picture, trapped in time: this had been happening for hundreds of years, people sitting in a room, waiting for dinner, and listening to the blues.

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

I recently had to wait two and a half hours in a doctor's office, just waiting to be seen. I literally was genuinely thinking 'Well, maybe this is a time loop.'

I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time.

Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks.

But believe me, there's a lot I'd like to say - but I don't think the time is right now.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

There's always down time when you're an actor, especially a character actor.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

Young widows still bide their time.

There are 31.536.000 seconds in a year. I am counting down every second.

Next time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come?

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

When days seem like years and years feel like days.

It will happen but it will take time.