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Quotes About Waiting

I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
~ Enda Kenny
I tried out for the London Olympics, missed it by a little bit, gave it away for a while, and wasn't sure I wanted to wait for another four years.
~ Emma McKeon
Hopefully, I will be meeting the right person one day.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
~ Gary Sinise
Many people from the industry come up to me and say 'We don't see you onscreen much.' But where are the scripts? Do you think I am not sitting in my office and waiting for something like 'Matru' to happen to me? I would love to do four such films in a year.
~ Pankaj Kapur
There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.
~ Sylvie Guillem
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed, Nor cares for falling tears or rain. Thou knowest all; I sit and wait With blinded eyes and hands that fail, Till the last lifting of the veil And the first opening of the gate. Thou knowest all; I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away.
~ Oscar Wilde
JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me! GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Si no tarda usted mucho, le esperaré aquí toda la vida.
~ Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
~ P.C. Cast
I've bespelled this locket, for you; my own, my mate. The day has come when death forced us to part. You must know that I for you, forever, I shall wait. So until we meet again I hold your love safely within my heart. Remember, your oath was to temper strength with mercy. No matter how long apart we shall be, I hold you to that oath eternally... eternally...
~ P.C. Cast
Remember that I will be here', he said resolutely. 'For an eternity (...). I would wait for you for an eternity.
~ P.C. Cast
Da, hes waiting for me to tell the two of you our news first, then he'll join me. He cocked a dark brow at her. And why would he not come to your mother and me first and ask permission to handfast with you, as is the honorable thing to do? She cocked her own brow, mirroring his expression perfectly. Because he's not stupid. Anyone with any sense would be scared of you two. But even scared to death, he wanted to come with me. I wouldn't let him. I knew I needed to talk to you alone first.
~ P.C. Cast
Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.
~ P.C. Cast
of urgency I was feeling. "Tonight, Zoeybird? I can't wait a few hours until morning?" "Tonight." As if to punctuate my request through the phone, Aphrodite and I heard the chilling sound of a raven's deep, creepy, croaking
~ P.C. Cast
Well, if he comes when I'm out, tell him to wait. And now, Jeeves, mes gants, mon chapeau, et le whangee de monsieur. I must be popping.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
You see, the catch about portrait-painting—I've looked into the thing a bit—is that you can't start painting portraits till people come along and ask you to, and they won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The last few minutes of waiting in a cupboard are always the hardest.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I paused, partly for breath, and partly because I felt I had said enough. I stood there, waiting for her reply, wishing I had a throat lozenge to suck.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
If you see a man asking for trouble, and insisting on getting it, the only thing to do is to stand by and wait till it comes to him. After that you may get a chance. But till then there's nothing to be done.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner.
~ P.G. Wodehouse