Quotes About Waiting

a magic egg swaddled in a nest, waiting for its mystery to hatch, and the night grew yet darker.

Prayer never works. Expect no miracles, Father. The dead stay dead, and the living only wait

The noises on the roof stopped. The six waited. The night seemed to be crouched like a wild thing, studying its prey, timing its attack.

She has been sitting on the step for half an hour when she hears semiautomatic rifle fire in the distance.

Remember, good things come to those who wait.

Do you remember the Joyce Landorf series we saw at church last year?" Skye asked. Peggy nodded. "I guess this is what she meant by being stuck in a waiting room." "Yes, with both exits covered.

We certainly would," Cliff said. "Seth's family is waiting for us," Justine told them. "But thanks for the invite." She smiled as Cal came in with another two bags. "And thanks, Cal

Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.

It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.

With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.

She was resting at a table between numbers in the Greek nightclub where she was dancing. A little of the stage light touched her. She was very frail. She seemed to be thinking about something far away, waiting patiently for somebody to destroy her.

The soybean crop was dead again, and the failed, whilted cornstalks were laid out on the ground like rows of underthings. Most of the farmers didn't even plant anymore. All the false visions had been erased. It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.

I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb.

I'll be waiting at the airport.' 'You just made my year' she said. 'You made my life.

La ciudad, dijo el locutor, estaba a la expectativa. La ciudad, nos aseguró el locutor, contenía la respiración.

But what if there's no such thing as time after this life?" "I don't understand." "No minutes, no hours, no clocks. No night turning into day. I like to think your mother's not alone, because she's not waiting for us. We're already there.

Jane stood by the side of Lord Frederick, the family connection, who was handsome and charming beyond what any family had a right to expect. With gallant punctiliousness, he had early claimed his right to the first two dances. "For you have kept me waiting longer than any other partner," he told her. "I have been waiting for you to grow up.

sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

If I die," he whispered in the dark, "dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

We dangled our feet in the water, moving from shade to sun and back to shade as we grew too warm, talking of this and that and not much of anything, both aware of each other's smallest movement, both content to wait until chance should bring us to that moment when a glance should linger, and a touch should signal more.

Often people who are very ill, but are near their birthday, seem to wait until it's passed before dying. I

His heart was beating very erratically; perhaps it would conveniently stop. He waited for a moment to allow it to do this if it liked, but it went on cheerfully thumping away.

Here we stopped, turning our horses over to the attention of a hostler, who moved so slowly as to seem ossified.

left me studying the birds, with the assurance that he would shortly