Quotes About Waiting

Tell me,' he said, 'what is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. What are they waiting for?

I take the blue envelope which Jacques has sent me and tear it slowly into many pieces, watching them dance in the wind, watching the wind carry them away. Yet, as I turn and begin walking toward the waiting people, the wind blows some of them back on me.

All comes to him who waits—and works.

Joe asks how long they've been there one of them says fuck off another says a week a third calls him a drunk homeless fuck and tells him to go away. Joe asks how long they will wait the singular answer is as long as it takes and somewhere inside the house five-day-old children sleep under siege because their mother has a nice smile and beautiful hair and can recite lines on camera.

he sits and waits and hopes that at some

There is no getting into the future except by waiting.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

I never understood actors who could just wait around.

If I was a painter, I would have hundreds of finished and unfinished canvases in my studio waiting for people to see, and it is the same with my music. I've got so many pieces of music and songs waiting to be heard.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

Who waiteth for dead man's shoes will go long barefoot.

She cannot: but must do it by distance of time.

Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.

Patience! It is not how quickly you run, but how slowly.

You are created invisible spiritually, and invisibility is largely a matter of patience.

Timing can be everything and wisdom requires the patience to wait as well as the courage to leap when the time becomes right.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog's lifestyle.

The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us...

The 'Good News' is, the messiah cometh. The bad news is, he never does.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.