Quotes About Waiting

Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Justice, like the will of God, doesn't always manifest itself on the spur of the moment. It doesn't always come when you think it should. You just gotta wait it out. And

Comenzó a pasar más tiempo esperando a su príncipe azul que estando con él.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

they had an unselfconscious comfort that normally required long intimacy. Maybe it was because he'd been thinking about her all month, waiting for her to appear, and the anticipation had been akin to actually being together.

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

We have waited here long in the dust; we are tired and hungry; but the triumphal procession must appear at last.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

But when launches were delayed, everything moved into a strange sort of limbo...a launch that was supposed to have gone up one morning but wouldn't attempt again until the next made us all feel we were living in a day that didn't count, a day between parentheses.

?akal bom ladje, sedel bom v katerem izmed bifejev ob pristaniš?u, na z apnom pobeljenem dvoriš?u, z uzom in mezeji in piškoti iz medu in mandljev z medom in mandlji pred sabo ... vdihaval bom te sladke vonjave. In ?akal. Sedel bom na modrem stolu in ?akal. Gledal bom menjavanje letnih ?asov na nebu z odprto knjigo na srcu. Ob morju se nebo hitro spreminja. Življenje se zgosti pred temi široko odprtimi vrati.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

All day you have been on my mind A seagull perched on an old wharf piling by the steely grip of its claws shrieking when any other comes too near waiting for fish or what the tide brings shaking out its long white wings like laundry. All day you have been on my mind a thrift store glamour hat that doesn't fit with a perky veil scratching my cheek with a feather hanging down like a broken tail.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything fell into place around what we wanted. Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.

Sometimes I wish the end would come... whatever it is

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

Life got ahead of me. I thought I would hurry up walking through this desert and I would await its arrival!

Will you wait for me on the platform then?' Suki looked at Rollo and cast her eyes upward. 'I suppose so.' Retra smiled at her. 'Don't you mean, "I guess so"?

them already packed and waiting.

Ich habe auf Dich gewartet, sagte die Frau. Ich habe Dich nicht gekannt, aber man kann auch auf Jemanden warten, den man noch nie gesehen hat.

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.