Quotes About Waiting

I was waiting for you on the beach when Kathleen came along and invited me to go for a swim with her.

I think that knowing the future might be disturbing, but it can be good as well; knowing and not being frightened, having the time to make all one's arrangements, and knowing that there are good hands waiting for the things and people one cares about.

many hard and miserable hours must you endure, until that period shall arrive.

Si el éxito me sonríe pasarán muchos, muchos meses, y tal vez años, antes de que volvamos a encontrarnos. Si fracaso, me verás pronto, o quizá nunca.

Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting for someone to tell me when I can be normal again,' she said. 'I keep thinking I'll get a letter. Or a call. When does it happen?' Pete looked like he wanted to walk toward her, but then he fell back against the car. The staring contest between them for almost a minute, and finally Pete exhaled loudly. It's okay,' he said.

Sometimes, you have to wait a little bit for this kind of gratification, but it's still worth it.

You can only spend so long in a bathroom without arousing suspicion. Over a half an hour, and people are staring at the door, wondering about you.

But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.

Told her I would wait as long as it took. She told me not to bother, but I waited anyway.

She walked down the hill and she found relief in the unnatural stillness of the earth around her, the stillness of full light without sun, of leaves without motion, of a luminous, waiting silence.

called from Hawaii to say he was on his way home, waiting for a military flight. On Christmas

And so I sit on the dunes in my carefully mismatched clothes, hour after hour, day after day, frozen in my looking back. 'Do not look behind you...lest you be swept away.' That is what scripture say. Only there is nowhere for me to look but back. No future. No redemption. Like Lot's wife, I am turned to salt, my tired eyes trained on the blue-gray horizon, where sea meets sky, where my yesterday's met my tomorrows, a ragtag eccentric, watching and waiting for something that never comes.

Plus," Tig said, "it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting." "For people to die?" "Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything.

so he just stood there brewing like a coffeepot. Only with a coffeepot you know exactly what's going to come out of it.

The clock gulps softly, eating second whole while she waits...

While we watched without comprehension, she moved away to where none of us wanted to follow. Ruth May shrank back through the narrow passage between this brief fabric of light and all the rest of what there is for us: the long waiting. Now she will wait the rest of the time. It will be exactly as long as the time that passed before she was born.

Then comes the day where Turp is waiting by my locker like a big red balloon fixing to pop.

Nothing was more wonderful than waiting for a happiness you could be sure of.

So what do I know about ocean, still yet to stand on its sandy beard and look it in the eye? Still waiting to meet the one big thing I know is not going to swallow me alive.

For a Christmas tree we had a palm frond stuck in a bucket of rocks. As we gathered around it and waited our turn to open our meager, constructive gifts, I stared at that pitiful frond decorated with white frangipani angels going brown around the edges, and decided the whole thing would have been better off ignored.

hours, she took forever over her morning

The owner of a coffee shop sat diminished in the back of his deserted establishment, waiting for patronage that had long since vanished.

What did Ian Fleming say? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. And I don't believe in waiting for even that much evidence. It was past time to act.