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Quotes About Waiting

How long do we wait?" "Long as it takes," he said distractedly because she was sucking the salt off her thumb. Then she sucked on the straw to her soda and he nearly had a brain aneurism.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sure, good things come to those who wait. —but they're the leftovers from those who. got there first.
~ Jill Shalvis
I don't want to rush you. Rush me through what? Us. He let out a low laugh. Babe, I've been here waiting all along. Waiting for you to be ready. He tugged her into his arms. Please rush me.
~ Jill Shalvis
Sure, good things come to those who wait—but they're the leftovers from those who got there first." Chloe Traeger
~ Jill Shalvis
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. —Rogers Hornsby
~ Jill Shalvis
Okay, tough girl," he said softly, nuzzling at her throat. "No questions. No talking. You go ahead and give ignoring what's still between us your best shot. I'll wait right here.
~ Jill Shalvis
Aidan realized he'd wasted a lot of time waiting for the perfect woman, when all he really wanted was someone to laugh with him the rest of his life.
~ Jill Shalvis
You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!
~ Jim Butcher
Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.
~ Jim Butcher
Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.
~ Jim Butcher
Back to my apartment? The FBI is there just waiting to slap handcuffs on me. Well then I guess you shouldn't have decided to become a terrorist, Harry! Hey, I never-- Bob raised his voice and shouted toward the centipedes, I'm not with him!
~ Jim Butcher
I'll be patient," I said. "But not forever.
~ Jim Butcher
I pressed past the outer branches of the lilacs and found a small and relatively open space in the middle. Then I waited.
~ Jim Butcher
The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by.
~ Jim Butcher
Do you understand the rules as I have given them to you?" "Yep," I said. "Yes," said Arianna. "Have you anything else to say?" "Always," I said. "But it can wait.
~ Jim Butcher
I have to reregister a room for my heart. It's been waiting a long time, somewhere outside, without so much as a whisper of protest. That abandonment wasn't just an abuse, it was a sin.
~ Jim Carroll
If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen
~ Jim Davis
When your prayers aren't answered immediately, sometimes God has a different—or better—plan.
~ Jim George
Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection Send my credentials to the House of Detention I got some friends inside The face in the mirror won't stop The girl in the window won't drop A feast of friends Alive! she cried Waitin' for me Outside!
~ Jim Morrison
Telefonun çalm?yorsa bil ki benim.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Gwen: It's not going to work. Paul: Pardon me? Gwen: Cinderella's not going to sleep with you because you're taking the ugly stepsister to the ball. She'll still make you wait.
~ Unknown
I tried to figure out whether it was day or night: if it was day I had a shot at going home, but in the hospital there was no day or night. Only shifts. Only waiting.
~ Joan Didion
Someday it all comes.
~ Joan Didion
I am a thirty four year old woman with long straight hair and an old bikini bathing suit and bad nerves sitting on an island in the middle of the Pacific waiting for a Tidal Wave that will not come
~ Joan Didion