Quotes About Waiting

The rate of delay is in direct proportion to the urgency of arrival.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.

There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.

For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world

Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.

And yet as the day progressed she had found herself wishing that he would come— now . If not sooner.

He had always a sense of waiting—waiting for something to happen, waiting to move on to the next scene of the drama.

She hoped he would come today. She dreaded the thought of having to go through all this again tomorrow.

What was the point of waiting for a more pleasant post? There was no such thing as pleasure in life for her anymore.

And at least then she would be certain. If rejection was to be her fate again, she could at least then begin the dreary task of piecing together a meaningless life. Anything was better than this endless waiting.

And you, Elizabeth? he had asked. Do you love me? Will you wait for me? Yes, she had answered with all the ardor of extreme youth. I love you, Robert, and I shall wait forever if I must.

If Piers was much longer, she would throttle him. If he failed altogether to put in an appearance, she would borrow a dueling pistol and shoot him.

It was a seductive idea that he might not come until tomorrow after all, but on the whole she hoped he would come today so that this waiting, this suspense, might be at an end.

We seem to have lost the gift of patience, of waiting for time to unfold its story.

She looked around the room and motioned for the waitress to bring her check. Eb waited while she settled her tab.

A Thousand Mornings All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing

Little Crazy Love Song" I don't want eventual, I want soon. It's 5 a.m. It's noon. It's dusk falling to dark. I listen to music. I eat up a few wild poems while time creeps along as though it's got all day. This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass, the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.

This is what I have. The dull hangover of waiting, the blush of my heart on the damp grass, the flower-faced moon. A gull broods on the shore where a moment ago there were two. Softly my right hand fondles my left hand as though it were you.

What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching-truly I do not know.

the river can't wait to get to the ocean and the sky, it's been there before.

knowing that the hour of fulfillment is buried in years of patience — yet willing to labor like that on the mortal wheel.