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Quotes About Waiting

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
~ Raoul Dufy
Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.
~ Kamand Kojouri
I often wonder, Is it worth waiting only for things you think are going to be truly great, or is that a pretentious attitude to take?
~ Jason Schwartzman
how much time like this it holds on how much time resting is going to start up again --- knows it --- at the edge already the first words are waiting --- speech being reborn --- hitch still looking for its post
~ Unknown
They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again.
~ Danielle Steel
Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient.
~ Danielle Steel
another month. They would be back in the
~ Danielle Steel
she had stopped hoping to meet
~ Danielle Steel
Do you sit home like the Virgin Mary waiting for Prince Charming to come along? Or do you go out with Prince not-so-charming and at least get out of the house and have some fun while you wait for the right guy to come along?
~ Danielle Steel
do. And besides, he's going to be away at
~ Danielle Steel
Parfois, les prières mettent longtemps avant d'être exaucées, mais les plus ferventes le sont toujours.
~ Danielle Steel
Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
~ Darren Shan
I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.
~ Darren Shan
To be added when I get it cause I just realised I don't have it at the moment.
~ Darren Shan
He said: I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you. He cleared his throat. If they hang you I'll always remember you.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Have it your own way," she said, "but I always thought detectives waited until they had every little detail fixed in—" "And then wonder why the suspect's had time to get to the farthest country that has no extradition treaty.
~ Dashiell Hammett
It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity. I bet this kind of thing does not happen to heroin addicts. I bet that when serious heroin addicts go to purchase their heroin, they do not tolerate waiting in line while some dilettante in front of them orders a hazelnut smack-a-cino with cinnamon sprinkles.
~ Dave Barry
You would think that, by sheer chance, there would come a time when you daughter's two dances would be close together, ideally near the beginning. But the dance studio makes sure this never happens, using the same computer scheduling program that the cable-TV company uses to make sure that the technician, for whom you have been waiting eleven hours, rings your doorbell only when you have just commenced pooping.
~ Dave Barry
You would stay at home, the anxious hours ticking by, and you would wait for your Phone Man. It was as close as most people came to experiencing what heroin addicts go through, the difference being that heroin addicts have the option of going to another supplier. Phone customers didn't. They feared the power of the Telephone Company.
~ Dave Barry
I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
If I ever fall in love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as I can. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
~ Dave Eggers
When I rest my head on the couch I know that it's coming, coming like something in the mail, something sent away for. We know it is coming, but are not sure when—weeks? months? She is fifty-one. I am twenty-one. My sister is twenty-three. My brothers are twenty-four and seven. We are ready. We are not ready. People know.
~ Dave Eggers