Quotes About Waiting

It's more convenient to have a hero waiting in the wings than to endure a blowhard standing in the spotlight.

Y allí se quedó la vieja y malvada Bruja, durante mucho, muchísimo tiempo. —¿Ha salido alguna vez? —Todavía no.

history takes a long time to happen.

Very well. I can wait. May I give you a bit of advice?" "Please do." "Don't take the advice of anyone you meet here. We're all mad.

With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep." "As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce that gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars' fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly." "They should come down closer to the earth." "Well, ask them politely.

arriving rarely makes you as happy as you anticipate. p 84

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me.… They remind me of one's childhood that one goes through, wondering what the next course is going to be like—and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

For instance, if it's 9 a.m. and I have an appointment at 11 a.m., I'll think 'Oh, I have to go somewhere in two hours, so I can't really start anything serious' and then end up wasting my whole morning waiting for one thing to happen.

How slow life is, how violent hope is.

J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère L'automne est morte souviens-t'en Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre Odeur du temps brin de bruyère Et souviens-toi que je t'attends

Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.

I have patience in all things – as far as the antechamber.

Are you not tired as I am of waking up every morning and seeing the sun all over again? Tired of living the same life, suffering the same sorrow? Tired of desiring, and tired of being sated? Tired of waiting, and tired of possessing?

Une vie! Quelques jours et puis plus rien! On naît, on grandit, on est heureux, on attend, puis on meurt.

L'angoisse de l'attente faisait désirer la venue de l'ennemi.

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

Sabías que las indicaciones del tiempo de espera en la cola de las atracciones de Disneylandia están exageradas? Así, cuando llegas al principio de la cola en menos tiempo del anunciado, eres un visitante feliz.

Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.

The "master" would always be the one who could wait without anxiety;

I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing. Please yourself, said the old duck, and she went away.

swim. I think I will sit on it a little while longer, said the duck, as I have sat so long already, a few days will be nothing.

A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.

I shall drink no wine before its time. Okay, it's time.

The first woman handed him over to the second. Tag-team style. 'Mr Caufield is waiting for you in conference room C,' the second woman said, her voice low, as if conference room C were a clandestine chamber in the bowels of the Pentagon.