Quotes About Waiting

Love is what you give and love is what you want and live is how you wait, but it doesn't save you

Memoir is the life wanting to be transformed. It is the life we have been waiting for.

memoir is the life we have been waiting for.

I'm quiet for a long moment, and Velva just sits with me, waiting. She's good at that. Just being a companion, not pushing or prodding, but waiting as if she has all the time in the world. Why is it that a woman of 94, who probably has very little time left, can be far more patient that an woman of 30 who has a lot of years ahead of her?

What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?

When we pray we should ask the Lord to reveal His will to us and then pray accordingly, act obediently and wait patiently.

Havin' to wait gives us time to learn that He's always standing with us, teaching constant love and patience, until we finally come to the point of prayin', 'Thy will be done,'" Frannie pointed out.

Patience is yet another virtue, one that grows stronger through the practice of waiting

Patience plays an enormous part in perseverance as we wait and trust for what is to come—what God has in store for those who worship Him.

The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living in 1850, you could have sat in the bathtub for 25 years without having to answer the phone.

One of the toughest lessons a Christian can learn is how to trust and praise God in the uncertain time between a promise and its fulfillment.

Well, limbo is not a good place to be.

the senselessness of indefinitely delayed gratification.

Without a doubt, discovering destiny occurs at just the right time. It can't be forced, and we can't rush it. We typically cannot even imagine it. God takes the initiative to lift us up when he chooses.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

I was waiting for good films after 'Fugly' released. My second film was important. I kept waiting, and the period strengthened me. I would rather wait and do something worthwhile than take up bad films.

When you're first pregnant, you have that 'Wow, I can't wait' and then, by the end of the nine months - which is really 10 months of waiting for someone to arrive - you're just so ready for it to be over.

They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.

The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Sometimes, writing songs is like waiting in for deliveries. They give you a window, and your washing machine is going to show up, whether the window is the album or something you're thinking, like, 'This thing is going to come to me.'

What more does one ask of life, really, but to stagger from moment to moment with a reason to wake and wait for the next reason to wake?