Quotes About Waiting

Fue a lo largo de aquellos cuatro años cuando aprendí que la vida no es una espera sino algo que se puede disfrutar.

There was still plenty of time to spare when Çetin Efendi dropped my parents and me at the revolving doors, which were shaded by a canopy in the form of a flying carpet.

Mnogo je toga u životu, vjerojatno je tako, ali ti, eto, ?ekaš. Ovako to meni izgleda: stvari koje bih želio da se dogode potrebno je dugo ?ekati, a kad se i dogode, ne dogode se onako kako sam ih ja zamišljao i o?ekivao; kao da su se sve urotile protiv mene: dolaze polako, polako, a dok se sna?eš i pogledaš, ve? su i prošle.

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I wait and wait, as though something is going to happen, as though someone has promised to come, as though the world could show me something new...

No joy for which thy hungering soul has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But, if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted; For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silence unseen and dumb Essential to thy soul and thy existence, Live worthy of it, call, and it shall come. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

My master wishes to see you, said the mounted man. When the planting's done, I said. Lord Barton is unaccustomed to waiting. Then he should rejoice, for he'll learn something new today. I went back to the garden. Soon the servant left.

He had long since learned that when something unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Peter was waiting at the shuttle entrance. "Cut it rather fine, didn't we?" he said. "Is it eighteen hundred?" asked Theresa. "A minute before," said Peter. "Then we're early," said Theresa. She sailed past him, too, and on into the airlock. Behind her, she could hear Peter saying, "What's got into her?" and John Paul answering, "Later.

But it could wait until they got back. That was the nice thing about the past—it stayed right where you put it until you needed to pick it up again.

She is a woman, and so she dreams of freedom, of an hour in which there is no duty waiting to be done. No wonder there is revolution burning in her words, and yet they remain always words and never violence.

He knew from experience that a day like this could drag on and the only thing he would have to look forward to was for it to get dark so he could go to sleep and wait for tomorrow to come around.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.

Jack: "Gwendolen, wait here for me." Gwendolen: "If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Avery? she whispered. He gathered her closer, his eyes still closed. Avery? Shh. His voice was low and infinitely sad. Hush. Tomorrow's waiting outside this door. It's crouching there in an ocean of words and uncertainties. But it's not here yet and we are. Lily. Lillian. Love. I'm begging you. Let me love you again. Let me love you all night long. She answered with a kiss.

I had gone off with a contemp and a complete stranger—to say nothing of the dog—and left my contact waiting on the station platform or the tracks or in a boathouse somewhere.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

It's a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.

He turned and looked at the boy. Standing with his suitcase like an orphan waiting for a bus.

I think our time is up. I know. Hold my hand. Hold your hand? Yes. I want you to. All right. Why? Because that's what people do when they're waiting for the end of something.