Quotes About Waiting

The human heart has a way of holding on for as long as it takes, until it has been fulfilled.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

moved. I told her we could do it tomorrow, but she said not on the Sabbath. Anyway,

into the drawing room, where she and Connie waited, Kathleen anxiously walking back and forth, Connie noisily gulping her tea and silently congratulating herself. Suddenly there was a lot of shouting, much closer now. Then a loud, rattling bang. 'Stay here,' Kathleen told Connie. She hurried out of the room and across to the study. The door was wide

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life. Too many of us live without fully engaging our minds, waiting for that moment when our real lives begin.

Not only we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

You picked a man who can read tax code and date a celibate for two years. That's some serious patience. I have zero doubt in my ability to wait you out. I have zero doubt that you're meant to be my girl.

My name is Ruben Blum and I'm an, yes, an historian. But my front-door was locked and I didn't have the key, so I knocked, and as I waited for Edith to let me in, I kept waiving the shovel back at the Sheriff and mumbling, "Turks…what did you expect?…just a bunch of crazy Turks…

True love waits, but not just for sex. It waits for the right time to commit to God's brand of love—unwavering, unflagging, and totally committed.

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

Patience is important not only in waiting for the right time to start a relationship, but also in allowing it to unfold at a healthy pace. Impatience rushes everything. It urges us to skip the time and attention a healthy friendship requires and to jump straight into emotional and physical intimacy.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

sickness of hope deferred

Word of caution: try not to get so caught up in the action that you shoot the idiot who keeps knocking on your front door! "He should have waited until the commercial break," won't earn you an acquittal for justifiable homicide.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

It was nearly a week before we returned. We found her waiting, and very hungry. She was full of affection; we had deceived her so often, broken faith with her, done so much to destroy her trust in us, yet she remained loyal.

The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot.

Convierten al mundo en hospital, quieren que no esperemos nada, ni siquiera lo que no va a llegar y por la curva del cielo pasa tu rostro que llora.

La esperanza acaba marchitándose cuando dejamos de esperar la segunda venida de Cristo

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want.

He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first

fast. Get those months, days, hours, minutes out of the way, it can't be quick enough.

I realized that the antidote to impatience was allowing myself to reenter the flow of things, that is, to be in sync with the speed with which things were happening. ... All of these times - waiting, sitting, and understanding- are valuable. I can choose not to experience them as wasted time by choosing to be present and actually live these precious moments. After all, to reject them is to reject life itself.