Quotes About Waiting

So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.

When there's wickedness in our hearts, God will wait until that wickedness surfaces. He is capable of applying as much heat as it takes to surface the garbage in our hearts, no matter how much we might try to mask our sinfulness with piety.

So far as Alice was concerned Russell might have worn a placard,'Engaged'. She looked upon him as diners entering a restaurant look upon tables marked 'Reserved": the glance, slightly discontented, passes on at once.

Es preferible sentirse decepcionado que seguir esperando el vacío.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

He said he'd see you soon . . .

A model shoot was going on at half-court. Lots of those umbrella lights and tall, bony women-cum-children and tripods and people huffing and fluffing about. Myron waited for someone to mistake him for a model. And waited.

here, Rocco." "Just stay put," Rocco

He had discovered the scents and aromas of a spring that was eternally one day away.

Sul livello malva, accovacciato su onde di un magenta più scuro che nascondevano la sua forma arcuata, il pazzo attendeva.

After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned.

For a while is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough. Waiting for perfect love? No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for.

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.

Will you wait for me forever?

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.

All you have to do is wait," I explained. "Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting out there was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.