Quotes About Waiting

At last the door opened stealthily. Ellen, the discreet black maid, stood behind Mrs. Chinnery's chair, waiting. Mrs. Chinnery pretended to ignore her, but the others were glad to stop. Ellen stepped forward and Mrs. Chinnery, submitting, was wheeled off to the mysterious upper chamber of extreme old age. Her pleasure was over.

If I have to wait, I read; if I wake in the night, I feel along the shelf for a book. Swelling, perpetually augmented, there is a vast accumulation of unrecorded matter in my head.

There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near'; And the white rose weeps, 'She is late'; The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear'; And the lily whispers, 'I wait.

I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for someone to wear them.

I love you, I'm waiting for you unbearably.

I would see her floating away from me, celestial and solitary, in an ethereal chairlift, up and up, to a glittering summit where laughing athletes stripped to the waist were waiting for her, for her.

A real hansom-cab took him from the station to Trinity College: the vehicle, it seemed, had been waiting there especially for him, desperately holding out against extinction till that moment, and then gladly dying out to join side whiskers and the Large Copper.

Well, you haven't kissed me yet, have you

White folks sure is a case!" She laid three slices of bread on top of the stove. "So spoiled with colored folks waiting on 'em all their days! Don't know what they'll do in heaven, 'cause I'm gonna sit down up there myself.

Them cool green leaves Is waitin' to shelter me O, little tree!

I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind ?

I am so tired of waiting. Aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two— and see what worms are eating at the rind.

I wasn't expecting you either. I wasn't looking to feel something like this. But then you look at me like you are right now…you take my hand, or you pull me down beneath you, and I think maybe I've been waiting for you – looking for you, for this, for us - all my life.

I'll always be here for you. I'll wait as long as it takes." He locked his eyes with her. "You were always the one.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

Ventetida var best, eller verst, alt ettersom, når det først skjedde, når man var der, så var det liksom over allerede og noe annet som var sværere og finere eller styggere og jævligere vinka i det fjerne. Og så var det bare å gå i gang med å vente, glede, grue seg igjen.

Laukti tuš?iai - tai atid?ti gyvenim?.

La vida es como trabajar en el huerto: es necesario esperar el tiempo justo para recoger el fruto apropiado.

He wouldn't move an inch to eat or sleep or even take a piss as he looked out over a road or a valley, the invisible guardian angel to dozens of young troops. Protection was a waiting game, and even some highly skilled marksmen weren't cut out for it. Beside

She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.

If my response seems slow when asked a question, I always explain: 'It is because I have numerous files and subfiles to sort through in order to retrieve the info . . . please stand by. Help . . . my computer needs more memory!

The last hour waiting patiently on a tray for her somewhere in the future. The spoon slipping quietly into the beautiful soup.