Quotes About Waiting

And if it took awhile, that means she was in pain for a long time.

the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Wellington wrote in his memoirs,' said Old Jack, 'that the worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of battle.

This is bench number two, and I'll take over bench number one when Old Joey dies, which shouldn't be long now. Mr Watson's got bench number three, so he'll get bench number two when I get bench number one. But I've already warned him he's going to have to wait a long time.

Meanwhile, in the greenroom to the world, I waited. Not even a gleam in my father's eye yet (he was staring gloomily at the thermometer case in his lap). Now my mother gets up from the so-called love seat. She heads for the stairway, holding a hand to her forehead, and the likelihood of my ever coming to be seems more and more remote.

The doctor asked him to return when the swelling disappeared. Seville means to go back, he says, but he just doesn't have the time to spend commuting and hanging out in the waiting room. "I got to spend all day getting food and ready for the night, and then I got to spend all night staying warm.

none of which filled the hours that dragged by, until it was three o'clock and time to take the bus to Uncle Mel's. Each week, Bethie would

He can't remember, but he still knows exactly where to find it on his bookshelf, books are willing to wait, he says whenever visitors ask if he's read all the books on his shelves. . . .

That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for it and are anxious, it will never even sing. You have to go away and begin your meal, as if you were not going to have any tea at all. You must not even look round at it. Then you will soon hear it sputtering away, mad to be made into tea.

Isaiah Jim Dekker had included with his last e-mail: "But Lord, be merciful to us, for we have waited for you. Be our strength each day and our salvation in times of trouble.

The sun will shine in my back door one day..

Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so long.

I think of the flower in the bud: huddled, compressed, dark. Yet somehow it feels the night, knows moon from sun. It waits...waits.

When's the next star party? Spring Spring. Long time to wait. The sky's not going anywhere.

No matter what day it is, no matter what time, no matter where I am - I'm always at the star party, staring at the slhouette on the crest of the hill, whishing that one dark shape would split in two. But it never does.

It's really hard to do nothing totally.

if you love your garden, you don't mind working in it, and waiting. Then in the proper season you will surely see it flourish.

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

The thought that he might have to leave did not upset him; he knew that eventually he would have to go but that, as on TV, what would follow next was hidden; he knew the actors on the new program were unknown. He did not have to be afraid, for everything that happened had its sequel, and the best that he could do was to wait patiently for his own forthcoming appearance.

And he waited—as he always had—for life to come and find him.

It was as if I was a character in a movie and the real action was about to start at any minute. But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?

But I think some people wait forever, and only at the end of their lives do they realize that their life has happened while they were waiting for it to start. Do you know what I mean, Pasquale?" He did know what she meant! It was just how he felt—like someone sitting in the cinema waiting for the film to start.