Quotes About Waiting

It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.

Perhaps the only remaining attitude is one of waiting. By committing oneself to waiting, one neither blocks one's path toward faith (like those who defiantly affirm the void) nor besieges this faith (like those whose yearning is so strong, it makes them lose all restraint). One waits, and one's waiting is a hesitant openness, albeit of a sort that is difficult to explain.

I sit in my room at my desk, looking out the window to the yard and waiting for a plot to come to me, to rise slowly in my mind.

You can't hurry love, as the song goes. You can't hurry grief either.

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

I spend long, long time in shoe box.

Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he'd so faithfully carried.

The telephone about to ring.

My car rounds the corner, riding the path to the body shop. When I spot Alex leaning on his motorcycle waiting for me in the parking lot, my pulse skips a beat. Oh, boy. I'm in trouble.

Before the doors to your wishes is opened. Your patience and strength will be tested by the universe.

One day you will be given what you begged for from others without asking.

Rain drops never fell at the same time. Be patient and wait your turn.

Wait where you are until it is clear again.

We become desperate if we are not patient.

Whatever we wish for, rely on our patience.

To sit in solemn silence in a dull dark dock,In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

Warden Baggett, thank you so much. You have been so good to me. I love all of you very much. I will see you all when you get there. I will wait for you.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Perfect love is long delayed.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.