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Quotes About Waiting

An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
~ F. R. Scott
Your children are not dead. They are just waiting until the world deserves them.
~ Robert Browning
If you want the time to pass quickly, just give your note for 90 days.
~ R. B. Thomas
Who longest waits most surely wins.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Serene I fold my hands and wait.
~ John Burroughs
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
~ Anonymous
God will wait as long as it takes for us.
~ Reverend R. Walters
God grant us patience!
~ William Shakespeare
For ye have need of patience....
~ Bible
It's a long time between drinks.
~ Anonymous
A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more bearable.
~ Anne Wilson Schaef
He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
~ Horace
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
God pays, but not weekly wages.
~ Polish Proverb
God will provide - if only God would provide until he provides.
~ Yiddish Proverb
Give God time.
~ The Koran
God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best; His state Is kingly; thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest - They also serve who only stand and wait.
~ John Milton
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
~ Maria Goretti
I'll start searching for that ideal partner when I turn 40. That will be a turning point in my life.
~ Coco Martin
Abused patience turns to fury.
~ Thomas Fuller
It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.
~ Glenn Danzig
You don't usually have to wait a month for a new episode of a TV show. We ask comic readers to wait a month for a new issue, and honestly, given the time that it takes to put them together, a month is really too fast.
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.
~ Louis L'Amour