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Quotes About Waiting

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
To manage actionable things, you will need a list of projects, storage or files for project plans and materials, a calendar, a list of reminders of next actions, and a list of reminders of things you're waiting for.
~ David Allen
posting will be at the unemployment office." "I don't think
~ David Baldacci
lay there, listening for the squeaks of the final
~ David Baldacci
Only one billion, nine hundred and sixty-three million, four hundred and seventy-nine Thousand, eight hundred and sixteen possibilities. I should be able to get through them in the next seven Thousand, eight hundred and fourteen years. Just sit tight and call up lots of room service. - Dan
~ David Baldacci
minutes later Horatio pulled up to the
~ David Baldacci
courtroom waiting for their case to be called. Those
~ David Baldacci
texted each of them. He waited, waited, waited. Then
~ David Baldacci
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.
~ David Carr
Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose
~ David Deida
Most real-world computer programs, however, are significantly asynchronous. This means that they often have to stop computing while waiting for data to arrive or for some event to occur.
~ Unknown
There's been time this whole time. You can't kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.
~ David Foster Wallace
I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut.
~ David Foster Wallace
Even the novice alone can see quickly that a life conducted, temporarily or no, as a simple renunciation of value becomes at best something occluded and at worst something empty: a life of waiting for the will-be-never. Sitting in passive acceptance of (not judgment on) the happening and ending of things.
~ David Foster Wallace
I can remember hearing one middle-aged man who sat nearby saying 'Simmer down, boyo' to another older man seated kitty-corner to me across the doorway to one of the hallways extending out from the waiting area, except when I looked up from the book both these men were staring straight ahead, expressionless, with no sign of anyone needing to 'simmer down' in any conceivable way.
~ David Foster Wallace
But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any satisfaction is still way off, and it's frustrating; but like basically decent kids they suck it up, bite the foil, because what's going on is just plain real; and no matter what we want, the real world is pretty slow, at present, for kids our age.
~ David Foster Wallace
And just before 0145h. on 2 April Y.D.A.U., his wife arrived back home
~ David Foster Wallace
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
~ William Saroyan
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago
~ William Shakespeare
Time travels at different speeds for different people. I can tell you who time strolls for, who it trots for, who it gallops for, and who it stops cold for.
~ William Shakespeare
Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.
~ William Shakespeare
Ay me! sad hours seem long.
~ William Shakespeare
Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!
~ William Shakespeare
Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.
~ William Shakespeare