Quotes About Waiting

Time passed slowly, in indrawn breaths and captured prayers and creaks of the chair. Vianne watched the tiny black hands on the mantel clock click forward. She patted the baby's back in rhythm with the passing minutes. Finally

Some things in life, though, couldn't be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That didn't guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live your life.

waited. It is a long story that doesn't matter anymore, except for this: he came back, and I took him in. We found a way to be happy again. So will you.

she looked as if she'd been sculpted from the cool colors of this place, an angel alighted on a shore that waited for her.

Some things in life, though, couldn't be gone in search of. They simply had to be waited for. Like the weather. You could look out on the horizon and see a bank of black storm clouds. That did not guarantee rain tomorrow. It might just as easily dawn bright and clear. There was no damn way to tell. All you could do was keep moving and live you life.

At six, she left Jack a note on the kitchen counter, just in case he got home before she did. It was a wasted gesture, of course. With his homing skills, she'd be through menopause by the time he found it.

I'll wait forever. Leni

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With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all. Or maybe she was wrong, and he wasn't here, had never been here, watching her, waiting for her. Maybe she was just a silly girl longing for a man who didn't want her, standing alone in an empty street.

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Instead, she did what she'd always done in the face of a painful rejection: she disappeared and held her tongue and waited

Quiero que sepas una cosa: me ha encantado mi vida. Estuve mucho tiempo esperando que empezara, esperando que hubiera más. Tenía la impresión de que lo único que hacía era conducir, ir a la compra y esperar. Pero ¿sabes qué? No me perdí ni un solo momento con mi familia, siempre estuve ahí. Eso es lo que recordaré, y ellos se tendrán los unos a los otros.

and black sky. She waited impatiently for her third martini, making small talk with the bartender. The minute the drink was ready, she set a course for the terrace, sailing past the

Meanwhile I was trying to stave off the ache I'd developed. I noticed it first at the airport, coming home from a trip. There was a crowd on the other side of customs, holding flowers, the little kids dressed up and excited, waiting for their loved ones, who were returning home. I hated walking past that gauntlet of waiting people, because none of them were waiting for me. I stood in the cab line and felt the weight of my aloneness come down on me.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

They're waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for scraps

The greatest challenge in receiving great things from God is holding on for the last half hour.

As I wrote in 2013, "In the medical field, when a threatening condition is detected that is not immediately causing distress, physicians often counsel 'watchful waiting'. . . . [T]he precautionary principle would weigh heavily in favor of non-intervention because once intervention is imposed, that condition can never be undone, whereas non-intervention can always be countered by intervention.

There's no sense waiting in vain for one man when there are so many more to choose from

I've waited for you my whole life, Alyssa, and trust me when I say, you are worth every second.

Beloved, God's promises can never fail to be accomplished, and those who patiently wait can never be disappointed, for a believing faith leads to realization.

When I cannot understand my Father's leading. And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful, ONLY WAIT.

For I will yet praise him" (Ps. 43:5). More prayer, more exercising of our faith, and more patient waiting leads to blessings—abundant blessings. I have found it to be true many hundreds of times, and therefore I continually say to myself, "Put your hope in God." George Mueller

When God sends no answer and "the cloud remain[s]," we must wait. Yet we can do so with the full assurance of God's provision of manna, water from the rock, shelter, and protection from our enemies. He never keeps us at our post without assuring us of His presence or sending us daily supplies.