Quotes About Waiting

Yes, but the day has been decades.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

El tiempo es muy lento para los que esperan, muy rápido para los que tienen miedo, muy largo para los que se lamentan, y muy corto para los que festejan. Y para los que aman… para los que aman, el tiempo es eternidad. W. SHAKESPEARE

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

a ti también, en otras playas de oro, te aguarda incorruptible tu tesoro: la vasta y vaga y necesaria muerte.

Soy un hombre cobarde; no le dejé mi dirección, para eludir la angustia de esperar cartas.

es menos duro sobrellevar un acontecimiento espantoso que imaginarlo y aguardarlo sin fin

keep on following, waiting our chance

The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.

From this point of view the hero is symbolical of that divine creative and redemptive image which is hidden within us all, only waiting to be known and rendered into life.

I even have a superstition that has grown on me as the result of invisible hands coming all the time - namely, that if you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour,He stood and counted them and cursed his luck;And then the clock collected in the towerIts strength, and struck.

Judy went back to Paulie's place, but either he wasn't home or he wasn't answering his door. After banging on the door for four minutes, then waiting another ten, she decided she'd probably have to find someplace else to crash today She wished she'd taken the time to actually have a few friends.

Can the circle be unbrokenBye and bye, Lord, bye and byeThere's a better home a-waitingIn the sky, Lord, in the sky.

They always take longer than you think.

Ce n'était pas prévu. Le monde était ainsi pourtant, en suspens, en attente. Et j'allais devoir me battre maintenant.

He waited, the trail of his words slowly fading away into the rocks and grass and dirt and trees all around them. Nothing

Do you want to be saved?" I asked. Keri cocked an eyebrow. "Like Jesus?" "Like Lancelot." "I hang my hair out the window every night, waiting for some dude to climb up.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the gates of Missing. I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks. That was the lesson at Missing's gates: the world does not owe you and neither does your father.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

God's time isn't the same as hers. God's calendar isn't the one hanging in her kitchen.

He didn't disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to 'live the question,' not push for the answer.