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Quotes About Waiting

While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [...] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.
~ Michelle McKinney Hammond
patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.
~ Michelle McKinney Hammond
God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.
~ Michelle McKinney Hammond
No matter how long you have been waiting, the man God has for you will surpass your expectations. You will meet him when god says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.
~ Unknown
She glanced at Naiginn's profile. Torak was right, he did smile too much. Torak only smiled when he had a reason, and then it was worth waiting for.
~ Michelle Paver
I'm missing something, aren't I?" "Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours." "Tell him I'm dead.
~ Michelle Sagara West
That's why I'm waiting on my Boaz." I nodded and smiled. "He's the epitome of my Mr. Right. I figure, if God can make a Boaz for Ruth, He can make another one for me." "Who's Boaz?" Deniessa asked. "Boaz was a man in the Bible—the Book of Ruth, to be exact," I explained. "The original knight in shining armor. Boaz was an honorable, compassionate, rich man.
~ Unknown
Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness
~ Miguel de Molinos
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.
~ Miguel Indurain
In the middle of the night, waiting for daylight feels like forever, a forever where you're stuck going over every bad thought in your head with a fine-tooth comb.
~ Mike Gayle
Fats Boylermaker, 22, who once leaned against a corner light pole from 2 A.M. Sunday until noon Sunday, when the tavern opened again.
~ Mike Royko
Awe-inspiring, supernatural manifestations were about to happen—yet God waited until the prayer was prayed. As John Wesley so aptly stated: "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."2
~ Unknown
If you wait on luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
~ Mikhail Tal
The annoying thing about time is that it takes time...but no amount of it is enough when you are waiting to be sure. Time alone can tell you what will last.
~ Unknown
It was always just a question of time, and time meant so much to us, who were so anxious to get away, and so little to them.
~ Unknown
History has failed us, but no matter. Kyunghee would be waiting for her at home. -Pachinko
~ Min Jin Lee
I had a serious conversation with the flowers and they told me where they came from. I was right. They were from the man who was secreted away in my heart. I missed him so much. I couldn't wait to see him again. But, at the same time, I was scared of him. Whenever I thought of him a little door in my heart banged shut and I felt like crying. I had no idea what was going on.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Cansadament potser, o tal vegada més allunyat que mai del joc que incita, espero algun senyal, una paraula o un gest tal volta que reveli tota la densitat del buit que m'acompanya i em torni la perduda lucidesa.
~ Unknown
Doubt lurks in the bushes, waiting for you to come back from your honeymoon.
~ Mira Kirshenbaum
People do the same thing with problem partners. If you've waited a year for your partner to change, you're almost magically drawn into waiting another year. And then how can you not wait two more years after waiting the first two years?
~ Mira Kirshenbaum
I was going to die and it was taking forever.
~ Miranda July
I was patience defined, patience misspelled, patience sounded out slowly, letter by letter, with the t pronounced "shh.
~ Miranda July