Quotes About Waiting

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

So much of dealing with a disease is waiting. Waiting for appointments, for tests, for procedures. And waiting, more broadly, for it --for the thing itself, for the other shoe to drop. Except in the waiting you keep forgetting that it will really happen--it's more like a threat, an anxiety: Will my love love me forever?

Once when I visited her, she scuffed around the house in pink pile-lined slippers you'd wear only while waiting for the police to discover you many days dead.

He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

Trust me to return to you. I will wait forever. however long it takes.

I will wait forever, she promised. However long it takes.

I give myself to you. she whispered. No. Not yet, he sighed. If not now, when?... Time might be running out for me. For us.

Trust me to return to you I will wait forever

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.

When you come home to me, I will always be here waiting for you.

If you can't get peaceful about a decision, let it go. It's not time to make it yet. Wait until your mind is consistent and your emotions are calm.

Today, I will wait if the way is not clear. I will trust that out of the chaos will come clarity.

When I'm patient, things usually work out for the best in the end.

In a dog's world, only three states existed: now, in a while, and forever. If someone left, he was gone forever, and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone forever.

By Zeus's goolies, it's about time you got here!

Don't you think so? Don't you think so?' 'I am far beyond thinking, bone of my bone. Far, far beyond thinking, I hand over the reins to you, Irma. Mount and be gone. The world awaits you.

One piece had been titled "Expectant Silence" and consisted of a man sitting at the piano, playing nothing.

He could wait, because hatred is patient.

Hurry up and do nothing, that was the army's way of doing things.

The spinners were watching me, waiting, needles poised, and unless I did their bidding then my fate would be failure.

There was a tremulousness to those days. All Britain waited to hear of Alfred's death, in the certain knowledge that his passing would scatter the runesticks

Je n'ai jamais compris comment les guerres pouvaient faire tant de morts quand les chocs frontaux y sont finalement si rares. Je n'ai jamais plus admiré un récit de guerre qu'Hommage à la Catalogne de George Orwell parce qu'il raconte, justement, cette loi de l'attente et de la patience qui est la loi no 1 des combattants. (ch. 12 Les mots de la guerre)

He loved her! Despite it all, he still loved her! He was willing to wait!

Elizabeth Tudor weakly squeezed Valentina's fingers. She said, "Tell that woman I shall be waiting for her." Then she closed her eyes and slept again.