Quotes About Waiting

several of the clerks would look up from their work from time to time, and direct apprehensive glances over towards the seated figure, as if, sitting there tapping his foot impatiently as he waited for Jukes to return, he was about to weigh the feather of truth in the scales of justice against their sinful hearts.

Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.

The desert is a place of desolation", the priest said. "But there are hidden springs in it. In the desert one must learn to stand still, to wait for God in emptiness. Standing still in this way is a purifying fire. One must not run from it, for it is a great gift." "A gift?" "Is it difficult for you to grasp, Aleksandr? I suppose it must be. May I tell you a story?

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Waiting on God is hard when you are dispirited by illness. But part of waiting on God, learning to be passive in a way creative for your inner life, is not a question of thinking about God, but of growing in stillness. It has to do with prayer, and with music or from the simple contemplation of the world about you.

Life must not be spent always hoping, always waiting. Life is for living. -Kensuke

I listen to the line as it disconnects, to the last wave of electricity as it pulses from Maine to the Hoosier State, from her to me, and then wait for the thick silence that flows behind it.

But then where is she? It's a simple question but once it's been asked, a floodgate of questions follow: What if something's happened?

sun sinking, sky filling with pink and orange light, great expanses of land just sitting, seemingly waiting for the return of big creatures to make it small again.

a cat was observed in a veterinarian's waiting area sitting patiently on a leash, held by a human. Whoever you are, you had better cut it out.

Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Love was an accident waiting to happen, he decided. It was like throwing a parachute out of a plane and jumping after it, convinced that you could catch it on the way down. He was falling but it didn't feel like a death plummet.

I lost Scathach, but I never gave up on her. I have spent ten thousand years in this Shadowrealm waiting for that single moment to tell her, to show her, that I never stopped loving her.

The players who score the most runs are home run hitters, not those with consistent batting records. "It's the same with trading. Consistency is something to strive for, but it's not always optimal. Trading is a waiting game. You sit and wait and make a lot of money all at once. The profits tend to come in bunches. The secret is to go sideways between the home runs, not lose too much between them."12

But now, the new president-elect—after the most astonishing upset in American history—was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch.

While I was waiting to die, I still had the Journal of Nineteenth-Century Studies.

Su padre se levantó, fue al baño y al volver se puso el abrigo. Durante los dos o tres minutos que duró la operación, Jed tuvo la sensación fugaz, alternativa, de que acababan de iniciar una nueva etapa en sus relaciones o, por el contrario, que no volverían a verse. Como su padre se plantaba finalmente delante de él, en una actitud de espera, dijo: -Voy a llamarte un taxi.

Por otra parte es verdad, tengo cita con el psiquiatra, pero todavía me quedan más de tres horas por delante. Las paso en un restaurante de comida rápida, haciendo pedacitos el embalaje de cartón de la hamburguesa. Sin verdadero método, así que el resultado es decepcionante. Un puro y simple destrozo.

De sushi's verschenen een paar minuten na haar vertrek. Het waren er veel.

Existir, percibir Existir, percibir, Ser una suerte de residuo perceptivo (si se puede decir así) En la sala de embarque de la terminal 2D de Roissy, Esperando el vuelo con destino Alicante Donde mi vida proseguirá Durante algunos años aún En compañía de mi perrito Y de las alegrías (cada vez más breves) Y del aumento regular de las dolencias En esos años que preceden de forma inmediata a la muerte.

Sometimes we have to wait for what we want...Even when we want it very, very much.

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of God's arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God's grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can't grasp paradox; it is the knowledge of the soul.

So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!

I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.