Quotes About Waiting

I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.

Five years is a long time to wait. But if she could do all that when she was little, she must be able to do much more now. Maybe this time, she will find my answers. Maybe this time, she will get me home.

FIFTEEN MINUTES later

The audience has been lined up for over an hour already, and I know from experience that an audience's willingness to enjoy your show is inversely proportional to the amount of time you keep them waiting past the time on the ticket, which is, in this case, 8 p.m.

Remember what it was like on Christmas when you woke up before your parents, and had to sit there until they were ready, knowing that just a few rooms away there was something awesome waiting for you? For the next thirty minutes, I felt that way, while I waited for them to call me back up to the set.

Onlarca y?l daha iyi bir ya?am için haz?rlanm??t?m" dedim "ama bu asla gerçekle?medi. ?nsan?n kendi felaketiyle ili?kisinin onu beklemekten ibaret oldu?unu kavray?ncaya kadar uzun süre duygusal ve melankolik bir halde yak?n?p durdum

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

Pike spawn in February, March, and April because they cannot wait until May.

God's call to faithfulness can sometimes be a summons to be still and wait. There is a creative waiting as well as a creative acting.

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

awaiting a departure order.

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

I grabbed my coat. We were off. Well, I grabbed my coat, waited the best part of an hour for Hanne to choose between one pair of black trousers and another virtually identical pair, had a cup of tea, approved the trousers, and then we were off.

I found shelter from a thin rain in the laundrette opposite, the hot air thick with Persil.

if you just let things be, they eventually sort themselves out.

It is as if all four of them are waiting something out, as if none of them wants the night to end. Morning has sprouted, pale and winking, by the time they say goodbye.

Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord?

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.

but just let me tell you what Kadie did the other day …" Death Bird waited with ill-concealed impatience until Rap's tale was complete. Without even a smile at the punchline, he launched into a dull and pointless account of how his oldest son, Blood Beak, had killed his first bear.

Guarda, pues, silencio, hijo mío, y a su tiempo verás que el mayor de los regalos es conocerme de verdad. Y aunque te parezca que mis respuestas llegan terriblemente tarde, mi más preciosa respuesta de todas sigue siendo … Espera".1

When God calls, be patient. Your responsibility is to take your next step.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.