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Quotes About Waiting

I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fighting is better than this waiting," Brienne said. "You don't feel so helpless when you fight. You have a sword and a horse, sometimes an axe. When you're armored it's hard for anyone to hurt you." "Knights die in battle," Catelyn reminded her. Brienne looked at her with those blue and beautiful eyes. "As ladies die in childbed. No one sings songs about them.
~ George R.R. Martin
She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.
~ George R.R. Martin
She did not come to him, however. She has never come to me, he tough. She has always waited, letting me come to her. She gives, but I must ask.
~ George R.R. Martin
My lady," Tyrion said. "You are lovely, make no mistake, but … I cannot do this. My father be damned. We will wait. The turn of a moon, a year, a season, however long it takes. Until you have come to know me better, and perhaps to trust me a little." His smile might have been meant to be reassuring, but without a nose it only made him look more grotesque and sinister.
~ George R.R. Martin
The longer Cersei waits, the angrier she'll become, and anger makes her stupid. I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.
~ George R.R. Martin
Oldtown waited for the dawn, and the coming of the dragons. And the dragons came.
~ George R.R. Martin
When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.
~ George R.R. Martin
Stories wait, my little lord, and when you come back to them, why, there they are
~ George R.R. Martin
As you say," Tyrion grinned. "If I were Volantene, and free, and had the blood, you'd have my vote for triarch, my lady." "I am no lady," the widow replied, "just Vogarro's whore. You want to be gone from here before the tigers come. Should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of Old Volantis." She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. "Tell her we are waiting. Tell her to come soon.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Should you reach your queen, give her a message from the slaves of Old Volantis." She touched the faded scar upon her wrinkled cheek, where her tears had been cut away. "Tell her we are waiting. Tell her to come soon.
~ George R.R. Martin
I wait with sullen resignation," said Tuf, unmoving.
~ George R.R. Martin
Somewhere off in the distance, a wolf was howling. Crows circled the broken tower, waiting for corn.
~ George R.R. Martin
A siege is a deadly dull.
~ George R.R. Martin
Three yearswe waited intently for the heraldclosely watchingthe pines the shore and the stars.
~ George Seferis
On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died
~ George W. Cecil
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius.
~ George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Ancak ölüm kibrini uyand?rabiliyordu. Onu orada buradakilerden daha çok insan bekliyordu.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky . . .
~ Georgia Byng
I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Inside us all, in the depths of our winters, things are going on, things we will have no clue of until spring comes, and perhaps not even then.
~ Gerald G. May
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
~ Dan Chopin
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
~ William Butler Yeats