Quotes About Waiting

dangles of rosary beads moving through fingers like some circular riverworks of soul. The Men's Aisle didn't fill until

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

If you call the day after, you're maybe a bit desperate because, since the first day is out of the question, the second day is really the first day, so you're calling on the first day. If they're going to call, people call on the third day.

The Royal Navy was waiting for them outside, but its ships were thinly spread and heavily outnumbered.

There was very little wind as they set out. The battle was unlikely to happen that day.

In fact the destination was Boulogne, where Napoleon would be waiting for them from 10 June onwards

There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come along and pull them from their appointed slots. Take your time, the books whispered to me in their dusty voices. We're not going anywhere.

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

Lie there, lie there, little Henry Lee Till the flesh drops from your bones For the girl you have in that merry green land Can wait forever for you to come home. And the wind did howl... and the wind did moan...

We sit at the gate and scratch, the gaunt fruit of passion.

The bot waited in the dark of the lounge, not bothering to talk to the ship, whom it found rather introverted and, frankly, a bore.

Some part of me knew he would show up, that if I stood in one place long enough he would find me, like you're taught to do when you're lost. But they never taught us what to do if both of you are lost, and you both end up in the same place, waiting.

The hour of our release draws near.

Sometimes I feel like my whole life has been a long, long wait for something horrible that never actually happened. Like I've been in water, up to my neck, fighting to stay afloat, year after year. But if only I'd felt for the bottom I'd have found it. It was there. The ocean bed, just below where I was treading. It was there.

She waited patiently, which made him nervous. Royalty were rarely patient unless they were toying with you.

He was always just about to leave, always about to pick up the phone, and he always persuaded himself for a minute or two that stretched into thirty, into two hours, into night. We go back a long way.

Peretur wanted to reach out and touch her hand, but Nimuë looked brittle enough to fall apart. So she just waited.

I wanted to know about the woman who thought this was something I had done, but I wasn't in any particular hurry. Let her come to me.

He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.

My heart is beating as though it were waiting for something.

nature loves patience,

To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves...

The process of waiting and enduring qualifies you for the next step—the step into your destiny.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.