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Quotes About Waiting

Now they were audience, waiting for the actors on the other side of the glass to begin their drama.
~ Terry Sullivan
Hope is patience with the lamp lit
~ Tertullian
Don't move. I like this ledge of loose diamonds waiting to be spilled into the night. Let's shine awhile without touching. Sensuality is, after all, a river that is always waiting.
~ Tess Gallagher
Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I must wait, bide my time. There will be an opportunity. I need only keep my eyes open. Back
~ Tess Uriza Holthe
Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
~ The Beatles
Where were you When everything was falling apart? All my days Were spent by the telephone That never rang And all I needed was a call That never came To the corner of First and Amistad. Lost and insecure You found me, you found me Lyin' on the floor Surrounded, surrounded Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you? Just a little late You found me, you found me.
~ The Fray
Where were you? When everything was falling apart. All my days staying by the telephone. You never rang and all I needed was a call.
~ The Fray
Can I stand in your light just for a while? I've waited around and oh no, you are not around I made up more time watching you
~ The Strokes
You urge time when you are expecting your salary, you urge time when you want to meet your beloved, you urge time when you wish to see your children grow up. And when time is urged, you astonishly exclaim! Maybe this is the true theory of relativity..
~ The wise Pharoah Moe
So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.
~ Theodore Roethke
Your dying was a difficult enterprise. First, petty things took up your energies, The small but clustering duties of the sick, Irritant as the cough's dry rhetoric. Those hours of waiting for pills, shot, X-ray Or test (while you read novels two a day) Already with a kind of clumsy stealth Distanced you from the habits of your health.
~ Thom Gunn
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
~ Thomas a Kempis
God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
I used to get nervous just going to the stage door, seeing people waiting to talk to me. I was afraid of being caught out in some way or not being right.
~ Rosamund Pike
As a political exile, you always think you're going home next year.
~ Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada
I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.
~ Bristol Palin
To be on the bench is not the nicest thing.
~ Thibaut Courtois
In fact, there is no law that says election results must come the same day as the election. Historically, they used to take days.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
There's no point being at the airport longer than needed.
~ Gillian Tans
She wanted people to know that love often lies in wait, ready to bloom when least expected.
~ Nicholas Sparks
The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Five minutes passed, then six.
~ Nicholas Sparks