Quotes About Waiting

Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it`s not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.

When you're coming off a flight, skip the restroom by the gates and head to the one in baggage claim, which is always cleaner - and there's never a line.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

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.

I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

Very often, writing a song is a process that happens to me rather than one that I instigate. I feel a song coming on and, like a sneeze; I wait for it until it comes.

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.

Everythin' has its own time. That's what Mister Tom ses.

And you can ah till the cows come home.

He walked into the shadows of his rooms; walked into the darkness that no light penetrated. And there, under a halo of gentle red, she waited for him. In silence he stood, while the time drifted by. Days passed thus, stretching out. What of it? He had time. They had time. He touched her hand; it did not move. Very gently he lifted her body, cradling it in his dark arms. Is this what you feel, Sara? Is this what you feel when you cry?

Escribe la siguiente frase de Séneca y mantenla a mano, leéla, guárdala en la memoria, en la gaveta del automóvil en la pantalla del computador y trata de que te cale lo más profundo posible: mientras se espera vivir, la vida pasa.

a pause so heavy it wasn't just pregnant but ready to break its waters and deliver.

This court finds that no one should have to wait until they are dead to prove that they are in harm's way.

Eleven. I have waited for your awakening exactly an hour, for you asked me to come at ten. And here I am! (85)

She only came through that gate once a day, but my heart would beat faster from at least ten false alarms every morning. Then when her time came and the hands were pointing to noon, my heart went on thumping until her shoes with their black patent-leather straps and steel buckles drew level, almost soundlessly, with my basement window.

He waited for a time, knowing that no force could silence the crowd until it screamed out everything that had accumulated within it and quieted down by itself. (40)

nothing yet. I've been waiting. for what? she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the world. We must travel if we want to find them and flush them from their hiding places!

By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it. Though we didn't meet very often, at least our mettings were fairly regular, and I knew she was capable of waiting several weeks and then greeting me as if we'd seen each other the day before

Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them; but hidden behind a thin wall.

Quien se entrega a otro como un soldado que se rinde, debe hacer previamente entrega de cualquier tipo de arma. Y si se queda sin defensa alguna ante un ataque, no podrá evitar preguntarse: ¿Cuándo llegará el ataque? Por eso puedo decir. Para Franz el amor significaba la permanente espera de un ataque.

Cel care se pred? altuia, soldatul care devine prizonier e dator, mai târziu, s? arunce toate armele de care dispune. ?i, V?zându-se lipsit de ap?rare, nu se poate st?pâni s? nu întrebe când anume se va produce lovitura. Pot spune, aÈ™adar, c? dragostea era, pentru Franz, o aÈ™teptare neîncetat? a loviturii.

No le respondió. No podía decirle que le esperaba a él.