logo

Quotes About Waiting

I was never a planner, but to wait is to plan, or it is itself some sort of plan. Actions move us swiftly into the irrevocable, but to wait keeps the irrevocable at a distance.
~ Unknown
I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Learn to be patient..Even time waits for time
~ Unknown
We spend so much of our lives waiting to be ambushed by heartbreak. Why couldn't we be ambushed by joy?
~ Cinda Williams Chima
He'd serve himself, waiting and watching until he could take advantage. He wouldn't play the fool anymore.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Engkau tidak bisa membiarkan seorang pahlawan jatuh. Tunggulah saatnya.
~ Cindy Adams
Love yourself, love life, and remember love may be waiting just around the corner for you.
~ Unknown
Because we knew you were waiting, we did our best so that we'd return.
~ CLAMP
Without you my tomorrow wouldn't be worth the wait, and my yesterdays wouldn't be worth remembering.
~ Unknown
Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .
~ Clarice Lispector
I am at this instant in a white void awaiting the next instant. Measuring time is just a working hypothesis. But whatever exists is perishable and this forces us to measure immutable and permanent time. It never began and never will end. Never.
~ Clarice Lispector
She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.
~ Clarice Lispector
Em mim um sentimento de grande espera havia crescido, e uma resignação surpreendida: é que nesta espera atenta eu reconhecia todas as minhas esperas anteriores, eu reconhecia a atenção de que também antes vivera, a atenção que nunca me abandona e que em última análise talvez seja a coisa mais colada à minha vida – quem sabe aquela atenção era a minha própria vida.
~ Clarice Lispector
Don't you think there's a sinister emptiness in everything? Yes, there is. While we wait for the heart to understand.
~ Clarice Lispector
Amo a quien tiene paciencia para esperar por mí y por mi voz.
~ Clarice Lispector
Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandment. Waiting. There was no one.
~ Unknown
Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandonment. Waiting. There was no one.
~ Unknown
Well sometimes things don't make sense right away, so you might as well put them aside and wait until they do" -Mom
~ Unknown
The girls had to kneel all night on the parade ground waiting to see one of their number punished
~ Clive James
It's good to hope; it's the waiting that spoils it (Yiddish
~ Colin Dexter
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the one before. G. K. Chesterton
~ Colin Dexter
Expectancy of anything is always oppressive. When
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Man hat es leichter, wenn man selber weg muß, die Angst wegträgt, und das Glück da läßt, und vom anderen erwartet wird. Zu Hause sitzen und warten dehnt die Zeit zum Zerreißen und treibt die Angst auf die Spitze.
~ Herta Muller
Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion—and fear considers this very important—does it want to know how things stand with me.
~ Herta Muller