Quotes About Waiting

All that waiting around for a glimmer of stage time, just getting angry every week... It was just an oppressive, horrible, horrible place to be. I went to work feeling nauseous.

I have no special strategy. I can just wait to see what my opponent offers.

The best part of gameday is when kickoff finally happens. The worst part is going through all warmups and stretching and waiting and waiting for the game.

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

I was getting offers when I was in Bollywood, but was waiting for a strong character.

You ain't got to wait on a cab no more; just call your Uber, and it pulls up. But waiting isn't an option: that's just a big part of life.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

As soon as I get my car I think I'll be going to the cinema more. Since I don't go very often, there are no films that are a must see at the moment. I usually wait till they come out on DVD.

After work the following Monday Larry sat on his porch not reading but waiting in his usual company of bats and birds and insects, the tinkling of his mother's chime each time the earth breathed its wind. He was disappointed but not surprised when the night stole the far trees and the fence across the road and then the road itself and finally the sky, Larry's truck gone too in the dark and stars beginning to wink in the sky like nail holes in the roof of a barn.

How much longer?"he asked, trying to be casual. "For ever, if you keep interrupting.

We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.)

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

No matter how long it takes, true love is always worth the wait.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music.

But with twenty-four hours of airtime to fill, the fact that the storm had not yet hit was news.

Sometimes even destiny takes time.

The last time my ship came in . . . I was waiting at the airport.

Coyote is always out there waiting, and Coyote is always hungry.

I think about that story a lot now. People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize …. Maybe the person next to you, maybe you, and with no warning at all, with time only for a quick intake of air you are pitched into freezing, turbulent water and salt and darkness to drown.

Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?

Jeg vil vente med at vise Viggo F. bogen til i morgen. I aften vil jeg være alene med den, for der er ingen, der virkelig forstår, hvilket mirakel den er for mig.

It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.

Ja, det forstår jeg. En går helst bare ut når en må. Eller når en har lyst. Det er vel best å vente, og kjenne etter.