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Quotes About Waiting

You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ever's a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I dont know what other description of God you could have.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He waited for many years to hear from God what it was that was expected of him. What he was to do with this life. But God never said.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What are you going to do? I dont know. Wait. For what? I dont know. When will you know? When it gets here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He stood watching them for a long time. They all seemed to be waiting for something. Like passengers in a halted train. Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men. A space privileged to men of the irreclaimable act which while it contained all lesser worlds within it contained no access to them. For the terms of election were of a piece with its office and once chosen that world could not be quit.
~ Cormac McCarthy
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He had no faith in the power of men to act wisely in their own behalf. It was his view rather that every act soon eluded the grasp of its propagator to be swept away in a clamorous tide of unforeseen consequence. He believed that in the world was another agenda, another order, and with this power lay whatever faith he may have held. In the meantime he waited to be called to he knew not what.
~ Cormac McCarthy
They aint got no medication for pilgrims waitin to take the Sunset?
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it.
~ Cornelia Funke
Some come here to wait for death, others for life to begin at last, others again live only on the stories they are told.
~ Cornelia Funke
I waited outside her door while she went into her room and moved around. She opened her door, holding her laptop in one hand and its battery in the other.
~ Cory Doctorow
The truth is that abandoned dog following you over sea and land, baying from barren clifftops, never tiring and never quitting, forever pining after you—and the day will come when that dog is on your porch, scratching insistently at your door, forcing you to claim it once again.
~ Craig Davidson
I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.
~ Craig Harris
after Alvin we would be on board the other boat by now … Didn't
~ Cressida Cowell
text from Joanie: "R u ready to roll? Hang in there. It will be over soon. C u tonight. Luv u." He texted back: "All systems go. C u soon. Love u.
~ Creston Mapes
Sure, I believed the worst of myself but - not really. I was always waiting to be proven wrong.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles