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Quotes About Waiting

have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Waiting for the conspiracy theorists to tell the truth is a little like leaving the front-porch light on for Jimmy Hoffa.
~ Vincent Bugliosi
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
~ Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now
~ Wilfred Grenfell
This is the case with thousands: they appear desirous of knowing the truth, but have not patience to wait in a proper way to receive an answer to their question.
~ Adam Clarke
Eight more days and I can start telling the truth again
~ Christopher Dodd
When He withholds an answer, it is to have us grow through faith in Him, obedience to His commandments, and a willingness to act on truth.
~ Richard G. Scott
A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.
~ Stephen King, Bag of Bones
I couldn't have asked for a better kid. She's our own little Buddha baby so far. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop to tell you the truth. It's like the calm before the storm.
~ Ana Ortiz
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
This is what I've been waiting for my whole life. A President who's not afraid to tell the truth about being a lying a**hole.
~ Lewis Black
The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.
~ Mary Blakely
To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Somtimes people run to see if you'll ever come after them. -Joe
~ Ally Carter
A patient man gets all that he waits for.
~ William T. LeDent
These three sere beings at the shadowy corner waited on. Nannie was sixtynine, Keda was twenty-two, Titus was twelve days old.
~ Mervyn Peake
You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter. Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie, Puck said.
~ Michael Buckley
He ordered a slice of the house's excellent Sacher torte and a cup of coffee that was unusually drinkable for New York, and waited.
~ Michael Chabon
I was to spend the daytime summer stunned by air-conditioning, almost without a thought in my head, waiting for the engagement of evening.
~ Michael Chabon
Darkness waits. All things come to the dark.
~ Michael Connelly
he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed people could see this, that they knew when they looked at him that he was empty.
~ Michael Connelly
An accident I could live with. All that time I was waiting, knowing that somebody had to die for me to live, I was getting myself ready to accept it as an accident. With an accident it's like it was fated or something. But a murder… that comes with evil intent attached. It's not happenstance. It means that I'm the benefactor of an act of evil, Doctor, and that's why it's different now.
~ Michael Connelly
anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was
~ Michael Connelly
The next ten minutes took ten hours.
~ Michael Connelly