Quotes About Waiting

The alley reeked, as all alleys do, of past garbage and dried urine. Myron waited for Roger to look up at him. Roger didn't.

A sudden head rush hit me as I entered. I stayed still, waiting for my legs to come back to me. When the dizziness receded, I headed into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of ice water. I drank it in big gulps and poured another. I would be hurting tomorrow, no question about it. Exhaustion

I stood in a maze line formed by crushed-velvet ropes and waited my turn. It reminded me of visiting a bank in the days before ATMs. The woman in front of me sported a business suit—at midnight—and big enough bags under her eyes to be mistaken for a bellhop. Behind me, a man with curly hair and dark sweats whipped out a cell phone and started pressing buttons.

I don't do the wait-and-worry wife well." "Nice alliteration. The two D's and then all those W's.

She remembered waiting for her beautiful Spencer, hearing the bell, peering out the windshield, watching the kids erupt-exit like ants scattering after a human boot toes their hill. She'd smile when she first laid eyes on him and most of the time, especially in the early days, Spencer would smile back. She

Sometimes it is tough and frustrating to sit on the bench.

Patience may be the toughest thing when you're injured.

We're fabricating a state-of-the-art concessions system for our touring, so we can feed the people and give them everything they need without having to wait on it.

The best tournament players actually try to avoid risky plays altogether. They prefer to wait for their opponents to make the risky moves. They'll wait patiently until they catch a strong hand. When they do, they'll take down their overly aggressive foes.

Look how long it took to build the Freedom Tower, and we wanted that. It took 15 years.

The town was so dull: one day the tide went out, and it never came back.

The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

These short tracks are about patience. You have to show patience.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

Break open the cherry tree: where are the blossoms? Just wait for spring time to see how they bloom.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

The tree does not die, it waits.

Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

Maybe I'll be like that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.

Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.