Quotes About Waiting

I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;

Esperar, dicen. El qué no importa. Por eso de pie es conveniente. En otra posición esperar acorta la esperanza

Should we do this now? Pam gave an almost inaudible snort. She was smiling in the glow of the streetlight, suddenly exhilarated. You waiting for an engraved invite? Lord save me from sarcastic vampires.

The queen is ... busy, Wybert said. When she wants you in her room, the light, it will shine. He indicated a round light set in the wall to the right of the door. So I was stuck her for an indefinite time-until the light, it shone.

No, I don't think so. There was still plenty of light. I got there at

I'll deal with your hang-ups if you'll deal with mine, but if you're still too scared to even try, then you're not worth waiting for. I have some goddamn pride left and I won't wait forever.

Obviously, it was tough for me, coming from high school and being that guy who was always playing and then having to sit and wait my turn... Mentally, it was taxing.

Whenever we go to the cinema in Mexico, we have to get taken in two minutes before the film starts. We sit in a little room and wait for everyone else to sit down, or it becomes very difficult. Then, afterwards, there are people outside waiting for me.

I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.

See, there are just that many in 'character' roles that you can get. So I will wait for something mind-blowing to come my way.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Waiting for your buddies to get laid is right up there with hanging out in a dentist's office.

I'm waiting for the end now, you know! Just as you're waiting for your end. Just as everyone's waiting for their end. Only they don't realize they're waiting and waiting for what I've always been waiting for, namely the end!

He waited day after day, saying that it was perfectly absurd to expect, yet expecting.

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

A little stimulated at not finding her ready and waiting - so fanciful are men! - he hastened on...

But nobody did come, because nobody does;

Jude waited at all the evening downstairs. At a very late hour the intelligence was bought to him that a child had been prematurely born, and that it, like the others, was a corpse.

His supper still remained spread; and going to the front door, and softly setting it open, he returned to the room and sat as watchers sit on Old-Midsummer eves, expecting the phantom of the Beloved. But she did not come.

Era una di quelle sere in cui la tristezza può impossessarsi delle persone più allegre senza che ciò provochi alcuna sorpresa; quando negli emotivi l'amore si trasforma in angoscia, la fiducia in desiderio e la speranza precipita nell'apprensione; quando il ricordo non suscita alcun rimpianto per le occasioni che ci sono sfuggite e l'attesa non induce all'azione.

pues gozan los pastores, en común con los marinos, del privilegio de saber llamar a Dios en lugar de esperarlo.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. 

Almost every place has a moment of the day, an angle and intensity of light, in which it looks its best. When you're stuck someplace, you learn that time and you look forward to it.

His empty hands hanging palms forward at his sides, he stood at the window looking to the empty east. He did not look for dawn; east was only the way the window faced.