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Quotes About Waiting

He knocked absurdly on the skull like a man impatient for a door to open. His eyes glazed over. He appeared to be in the grasp of something beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. 'Time is slowing,' he said in a leaden voice. 'Each moment grows and fattens like a drop of rain on a window sash, waiting to fall.
~ Norman Lock
Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect
~ Norman Maclean
The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
L'attesa lunga, il mio sogno di te non finito.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
Beklenen geç geliyor; geldi?i s?rada insan ba?ka yerlerde oluyor
~ Unknown
Otuz alt? saattir gene aç?m. Ölümü bekliyorum. Bu arada vaktimi bo? geçirmemek için, okuyorum, yabanc? dil çal???yorum; hiçbir ?ey anlam?yorum. Fakat eskiden de -karn?m?n tok oldu?u zaman da- anlam?yordum.
~ Unknown
Turgut, s?k?nt?l? oldu?u zamanlar sorulara cevap vermez, bu kartlardan birini uzat?rd?: Daha gelmedi Bir de kantine bak Bugün yeni f?kra yok Ben ne bileyim ulan (en çok kullan?lan kart)
~ Unknown
?yi ?eyler birdenbire olur; bu kadar bekletmez insan?.
~ Unknown
You're kidding, right?" Ezra barked. "We're not just going to wait." "I suppose we could help people clean up a bit," "Girl!" Ezra called out. "Big eyes!" Winter turned from what she was looking at. "Are you talking to me?
~ Obert Skye
Anticipation is a fascinating thing. There's nothing like the anticipation you experience the morning before Christmas or your birthday. Of course, there can be great disappointment following that anticipation, like when on that same birthday you get a flamethrower that doesn't even work right.
~ Obert Skye
My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster.
~ Octavia Butler
There is no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
But there's no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.
~ Octavia E. Butler
People have changed the climate of the world. Now they're waiting for the old days to come back.
~ Octavia E. Butler
He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.
~ Octavia E. Butler
According to research from Laval University in Quebec, time passes most quickly when we're absorbed in an activity; time passes most slowly when we're thinking specifically about how long something is taking—perhaps most often when we're waiting. That's why "the watched pot never boils," even though the watched pot actually takes 9 1/2 minutes to boil,
~ Old Farmer's Almanac
been waiting all my life to meet you? Well, it applies to children. First as babies, but particularly once they've gotten old enough to have well-defined characters. It's completely true—you realize that you really have been waiting all your life to meet this person. There's nothing to compare to it.
~ Unknown
It is written that there are three things that do not come if you are thinking of them: the Messiah, lost objects, and scorpions.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Przyszed? do male?kiego ko?cio?a spó?niony, poniewa? czeka? na koniec kolejki do zimnych pryszniców. Uda?o mu si? przekona? barczystego k?pielowego, ?e musi zosta? w bieli?nie. Potem d?ugo rozgrzewa? si? gor?c? herbat?. Co za okrucie?stwo - polewa? ludzi letni? zaledwie wod?. By? przez to w z?ym humorze.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you.
~ Ono no Komachi
Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth— how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.
~ Ono no Komachi
O Spider Lily That grows on the mountain Called Waiting, Is there someone you also Promised to meet this autumn?
~ Ono no Komachi
To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.
~ Osamu Dazai
Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful." - Osamu Dazai
~ Osamu Dazai