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Quotes About Waiting

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish. ("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")
~ Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones
~ Cher
She had become something wrathful and insane, an urban legend waiting to happen.
~ Cherie Priest
Die, damn you! Maybe tomorrow. Just now I'm busy.
~ Cheryl Holt
Seriously, God! Did You have to choose me as the poster child for the single-and-waiting-on-God girl?
~ Cheryl McKay
I have to face that my singleness right now is God's choice,
~ Cheryl McKay
I'm so sick of my life. The chapter I want doesn't get written. I'm always stuck in the "wait" chapter.
~ Cheryl McKay
make sure the compromises you make are ones God is truly asking you to make and that it's not just your impatience kicking in. Especially be wary as your age creeps up. You may be tempted to say "yes" to the wrong person because you don't want to wait any longer.
~ Cheryl McKay
My prayer was different now: A year, a year, a year. Those two words beat like a heart in my chest.
~ Cheryl Strayed
waiting for a friend to get off
~ Cheryl Strayed
she said things I already knew but needed to hear again. How in darkness, we are waiting. How it is in the times that we must search hardest for the light that we are most profoundly transformed.
~ Cheryl Strayed
my exes who waited within bluetooth range could see me dolled up. After
~ Chetan Bhagat
The worst wait in life is waiting for someone to text back. Riya
~ Chetan Bhagat
The villagers waited silently. There is something about people with no hope for a better future in life. You can identify them from their expression. Most of all, it is in their eyes, which
~ Chetan Bhagat
Even on cloudy days the sun waits to break through.
~ Daniel, @blindedpoet
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it — the whole story doesn't show.
~ Andrew Wyeth, c. 1973
Not at home to callers Says the naked tree – Jacket due in April. Wishing you good day.
~ Emily Dickinson
hiding in my winter cocoon not coming out again until June
~ Terri Guillemets
Most contemporary fiction, like most contemporary theater, is designed to corroborate your fantasies and make you walk out whistling. I don't want you to whistle at my stuff, baby. I want you to be sitting on the edge of your chair waiting for nurses to carry you out.
~ James Baldwin
A chap ort t' save a few o' th' long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married.
~ Kin Hubbard
The time you think you're missing misses you too.
~ Terri Guillemets
We can live in God or we can wait for God
~ H.W. Mann
I've never cared for humming verse But what to do inside a jail? I'll hum some verse to pass long days I'll hum and wait till freedom comes.
~ H? Chí Minh
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
~ Hailee Steinfeld