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Quotes About Waiting

People wait their whole lives for this. Sometimes half their lives pass before they find it. Sometimes they never do. They settle for something else. Or nothing at all. But we found each other now, Georgia. Do you know how lucky that makes us?
~ Sophie Jordan
It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
~ Sophie Kinsella
There is no longer waiting for anyone, but for death.
~ Sorin Cerin
God delays but doesn't forget.
~ Spanish proverb
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
~ Spike Milligan
Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I head into the front room and catch Schatzi perched on the windowsill, staring out the window like a war bride waiting for her soldier to come home. When she turns to look at me her gaze is downright soulful, and from her mouth dangles a single sunflower-adorned mitten.
~ Stacey Ballis
She isn't the kind of girl that makes you wonder why she doesn't have someone, you just know that the kind of guy who is good enough for her is rare, and she projects the kind of strength that says she is perfectly happy to wait till he shows up.
~ Stacey Ballis
Forced idleness is a terrible thing.
~ Stan Lee
Those who are ahead of their time often have to wait for it in uncomfortable quarters.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
Viele, die ihrer Zeit vorausgeeilt waren, mußten auf sie in sehr unbequemen Unterkünften warten.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
İnsan sabahtan akÅŸama kadar bir ÅŸey olmas?n? bekler ve hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Bekleyip durur insan. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. İnsan bekler, bekler, bekler, ÅŸakaklar? zonklayana dek düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. İnsan yaln?z kal?r. Yaln?z. Yaln?z.
~ Stefan Zweig
Mais je t'attendais, je t'attendais, je t'attendais comme mon destin...
~ Stefan Zweig
He felt that it was a mistake to look for signs and portents instead of waiting until they were revealed to him in their own good time.
~ Stefan Zweig
That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.
~ Stefan Zweig
no se suicida quien no ve esperanza, sino quien la ve y no tiene ni el remedio ni la paciencia para esperar su venida.
~ Stefan Zweig
Nuestro amigo le salió enseguida al encuentro con el peón de su rey, pero Czentovic volvió a hacer una pausa sin fin, casi insoportable; era como cuando cae un rayo terrible y uno espera con el corazón palpitante que llegue el trueno, y el trueno no acaba nunca de llegar.
~ Stefan Zweig
ich mußte immer wieder aufstehen, so kalt war es im ensetzlichen Dunkel. Aber ich wartete, wartete, wartete auf Dich wie auf mein Schicksal.
~ Stefan Zweig
La multitud de manos claras, nerviosas y siempre en actitud de espera en torno al tapete verde, todas asomando por la caverna de su respectiva manga, cada una de forma y color diferentes, algunas desnudas, otras adornadas con anillos y pulseras tintineantes, muchas velludas como animales salvajes, muchas otras húmedas y retorcidas como anguilas, y todas, sin embargo, crispadas y trémulas por una enorme impaciencia.
~ Stefan Zweig
Sabahtan geceye kadar bir ÅŸeyler beklenir, ancak hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir durulur. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Beklenir, beklenir, beklenir; düÅŸünülür, düÅŸünülür, ÅŸakaklar aÄŸr?yana kadar düÅŸünülür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Yaln?z kal?n?r. Yaln?z... Yaln?z...
~ Stefan Zweig
senden baÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸey düÅŸünemiyordum, seni görmek, seni bir kez daha görmek ve sana sar?lmak istiyordum. Bütün gece, bütün o korkunç gece boyunca seni bekledim sevgilim.
~ Stefan Zweig
Bir gün çocuksu bir gururla —belki de hâlâ o gururla hareket ediyorumdur— evinin önüne gelmedim; fakat inat ve isyanla dolu o boÅŸ akÅŸam ne korkunçtu. Ertesi akÅŸam tekrar evinin önünde gururu k?r?lm?? bir ÅŸekilde duruyor, bütün kaderim boyunca bana kapal? olan yaÅŸam?n?n önünde yapt???m gibi bekliyor, bekliyordum.
~ Stefan Zweig
She had been waiting, she thought. Always waiting. In New York, waiting for her life to be replaced by some other, more interesting life on offer. Waiting for money that she felt ought to be hers to flood in and elevate her position, from some male source...
~ Stephanie Clifford
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee