Quotes About Waiting

You might say a prayer or two while you're waiting.

Love must wait; it must break one's bones.

It takes about eighteen months, on average, for a book you contract with a publisher to make it to the bookstore shelves.

Doing anything for the holidays? Joe asked me. We were stopped at a traffic light that was generally acknowledged to be the slowest traffic light in Merrick. Whole days would pass and this traffic light would stay red. Kingdoms rose and fell, presidential administrations came and went, and the light obstinately refused to change.

62: For G alone my soul waits in silence. He's running late, but my soul waits in silence. This is me, being silent. Out loud.

Time will explain.

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last...

to hope was to expect

If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

when people are waiting, they are bad judges of time, and every half minute seems like five.

Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.

aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.

A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here.

To you I shall say, as I have often said before, do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will love you as warmly as possible, and who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.

Margret saw that this is how it is that folk are made to desire what they know they should not have, they are made to wait for it, so that when it comes, no matter how dark and full of sin and repellent it is, they are glad enough to welcome it.

I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen.

I was waiting for my body receipt when Morelli walked in. He nodded to Ranger and grinned at me in my whiteness. "I was at my desk, and Mickey told me I had to come out to take a look," Morelli said. "It's floor," I told him. "I can see that. If we add some milk and eggs, we can turn you into a cake.

Ranger was waiting. He was dressed in black slacks, a form-fitting black T-shirt, and a black blazer.

A half hour later I was back in the very same parking space, feeling much more comfortable and twice as bored. I'd brought a book back with me, but it was hard to read and sweat at the same time, and sweating took precedence.

Günter killed his light and waited in the pitch-black, straining his ears for the noise to repeat itself.

His trips home were handholds for her, so she could swing from one square on the calendar to the next. When he said he was going to come home and didn't, she swung forward and grasped thin air, fell.

I lay on my mattress on the screen porch and waited for him to leave, watching the blue of the evening turn velvet, indigo lingering like an unspoken hope, while my mother and the blond man murmured on the other side of the screens. Incense perfumed the air, a special kind she bought in Little Tokyo, without any sweetness, expensive.