Quotes About Waiting

Las olas siempre regresan, [el mar] sus resacas, las mareas, las corrientes submarinas y las simas abismales. Y los monstruos que a veces salen a la superficie a saludarnos y a recordarnos que siguen ahí, esperando, aguardando." ? Iris Murdoch.

She began to feel that if there had ever been a bus she had by now certainly missed it.

The train was nearly twenty minutes late, an excellent performance by British Rail standards.

Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.

Time has a texture. Each period of waiting looms its own design. For Abigail, this one was shot through with golden threads. -Those Who Love, p. 130

No ha dicho cuando volverá. Hardin contestó: -Lo sé…; ¡Pero espero que no vuelva hasta que usted y yo estemos segura y cómodamente muertos!

We are to do nothing, is that right, except to wait in quiet serenity and utter faith for the deus ex machina to pop out of the Vault?" "Stripped of your emotional phraseology, that's the idea." "Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it." Fara smiled indulgently. "Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.

Victor did not see death as an irremediable separation. He imagined his wife traveling ahead through sidereal space, where perhaps the souls of the dead ended up, while he was waiting his turn to join her, more curious than concerned. He would be there with his brother

Two-thirds of those evacuated at that time had been born in the United States and were American citizens. Standing in long lines, the Japanese had to wait for hours in front of the desks of the officials, who took down their names and handed out labels for them to wear around their necks with their identity number, the same as for their luggage.

because people who had anxiously waited fifty years to be in power would not relinquish it because there was a chicken shortage.

me venga a ver, no ha venido desde

También te he aguardado siempre», parece que me dijo. O tal vez no lo dijo. Supongo que en el transcurso de la vida embellecemos algunos recuerdos y procuramos olvidar otros.

Pasaban las tardes con la boca abierta y la vista fija esperando alguna revelación que cambiara el curso de sus vidas, pero nada ocurría, sólo el cuadrado, el círculo y la misma majadera melodía

Occasions for appealing to public compassion are never wanting in a nation eternally rocked by catastrophes that shake the foundations of life, floods that sweep away entire towns, gigantic waves that deposit ships in the center of a plaza. We are created in the idea that life is precarious, and we are always waiting for the next calamity to happen.

escondían las horas? Se me escurrían como sal entre los dedos, vivía en un compás de espera, pero no había nada que esperar, sólo otro día exacto al anterior, aletargada frente a la televisión con Freddy.

Un día más de espera, uno menos de esperanza. Un día más de silencio, uno menos de vida. La muerte anda suelta por los pasillos y mi tarea es distraerla para que no encuentre tu puerta.

I would say that my forte is cutting the line. My entire life's work is me having zero patience and not waiting in a line.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

Florida: God's waiting room.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.