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Quotes About Waiting

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.
~ Chad Wolf
I remember when I was a kid, as a refugee in Egypt, every day, there was always a hope that we'd get to leave tomorrow and we'd get to go somewhere.
~ Luol Deng
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
~ Thomas Becket
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
~ Marc Andreessen
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
~ Alfred Doblin
When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.
~ Nell Newman
My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.
~ Phil Daniels
I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
~ Rakul Preet Singh
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
~ Edith Evans
I'm a very, very impatient person when it comes to breaking news.
~ Donovan Mitchell
I am very impatient and get frustrated if results are not delivered in time.
~ Reham Khan
I think it's very difficult when you're constantly on the bench and waiting for your time to come on and make an impression.
~ Oliver Burke
For five years I worked independently waiting for the right opportunity to present itself.
~ Latto
No one said a word; it was as if they were waiting for me to retract my question. Jan's hand found mine and held it. "What the hell is this? A wake?" My grandpa came out of the house carrying a tray of buns.
~ Bentley Little
Imparerai presto che quando non si è in azione il partigiano è il mestiere più noioso al mondo.
~ Beppe Fenoglio
There's all these people waiting, like waiting for something is enough to make it happen. That's the future, having something to wait for. I'm glad I don't have a future then. I hate waiting.
~ Bernard Beckett
She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.
~ Bernard Malamud
Ämblike filosoofia esimene õpetus: Pole olemas paremat võistlustehnikat kui ootamine, kuni su vastane enda ise hävitab...
~ Bernard Werber
Every time they have time to queue up and come slow-rolling through, plenty of people get killed. The most hopeless feeling in the world is when you just have to sit there and wait for it, knowing you're either going to be dead in a couple of seconds, or you're still going to be one of the lucky ones, one of the breathing ones who came through it.
~ Bert Stiles
I am sitting by the side of the road The driver is changing the wheel. I do not like the place I have come from. I do not like the place I am going to. Why do I watch the changing of the wheel With impatience?
~ Bertolt Brecht
That is, adoration was patient and waiting while love or, if you liked, plain sexual passion banged everything about. It either shouted or thought it knew too much, and it had always left him cold and had not involved his heart. Therefore, if he wanted to get involved now it would be on his own terms and at his own pace.
~ Bessie Head
That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.
~ beth hoffman
I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next...
~ Beth Kephart
Love is what you give and love is what you want and love is how you wait, but it doesn't save you
~ Beth Kephart