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Quotes About Waiting

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
~ Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.
~ Daniel Abraham
There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
~ Ronald Reagan
If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?
~ Rabia Basri
If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.
~ Lynne Tillman
The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think
~ Swingers
At the violet hour, when the eyes and backTurn upward from the desk, when the human engine waitsLike a taxi throbbing waiting,I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.
~ T. S. Eliot
Here I am, an old man in a dry month,Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.
~ T. S. Eliot
For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
~ T. S. Eliot
Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God's unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.
~ T.D. Jakes
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
~ T.S. Eliot
A ju? sama dyspozycja kogoÅ›, kto jest nastawiony na odbiór, sprawia, ?e Bóg widzi mnie jako oczekujÄ…cego na Å'askÄ™.
~ Tadeusz Dajczer
Wy??czy?em telewizor, w którym cywile i wojskowi czekali na kogo? i nie mogli si? doczeka?.
~ Tadeusz Konwicki
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
I love you, Aletta. I want you to be my wife. And no matter how long you need, I'll wait for you. Do you hear me?" "Of course I hear you," she finally whispered, opening her eyes. "I'm right here, after all." With a wry smile, he cupped her face in his hands and kissed her, slow and deep. Already breathless, she filled her lungs and looked into his eyes.
~ Tamera Alexander
Molly?" "Yes?" He turned back and reached out as though to touch her, then stopped. "I'll wait. And when the time comes, whenever you're ready—if you're ever ready—all you have to do is . . ." He didn't complete the sentence. He didn't have to.
~ Tamera Alexander
Your irritation is important to us," Cassie droned, looking at me upside down with her head tipped backwards over her headrest, "and will be exacerbated in rotation. Thank you for holding.
~ Tana French
For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only day we weren't waiting for.
~ Tana French