Quotes About Waiting

But still, I will try. She is in the wings now, waiting for her cue. Let us set the stage for her arrival….

THE TOWN WAS CALLED Hallowfell. We stopped for a handful of days because there was a good wainwright there, and nearly all our wagons needed tending or mending of some sort. While we were waiting,

as is often the case, especially for children, the anticipation proved much more exciting than the reality.

I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are," I said.

sound of a man who is waiting to die.

It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

To my patient fans, for reading the blog and telling me what they really want is an excellent book, even if it takes a little longer.

When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour. -Kvothe, The Name of the Wind, Ch. 12

The Devil never shows up on time for his own staff meetings, preferring instead to make everyone else stew and wait. Sometimes it's a few minutes, sometimes a few weeks. It can get pretty ugly. Considering

Herc watches the door. Occasionally, it watches him back. They can spend hours before one of them breaks down.

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

Just come back, I was thinking. You've been gone long enough. Just come back. I will stop traveling; I will wash your clothes.

Nessuno mi stava aspettando. Ma mi aspettava ogni cosa.

No one calls at eight o'clock on a Sunday morning unless it is to give news that cannot wait. And news that cannot wait is always bad news.

For one whole year he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out.

Things happen in their own sweet time.

Somewhere in your life you are being called to wait. In your waiting, you are being given an opportunity to deepen and strengthen your faith. So, get up tomorrow and fill yourself with vitamins of truth. Nourish your heart with the nutrient food of the glory of God. Feed on the strength-giving meat of his goodness, grace, and love. Snack throughout the day on his power and his presence. And watch the muscles of your heart grow stronger as the days go by. Feed on your Lord and be strong!

La verdad es veleidosa: no hay que buscarla con demasiada pasión, pues, con frecuencia se rinde, más bien a la indiferencia. Se escapa cuando parece que la hemos apresado, pero se entrega si se le espera con paciencia; se manifiesta ella misma después de habernos despedido de ella, pero es inexorable cuando se la ama con excesivo fervor.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Supply-side economics… is like one of those African viruses that, however often it may be eradicated from the settled areas, is always out there in the bush, waiting for new victims.

How far was that? On March 1 he told us the chest x-ray looked clear, except for a shadow that was probably the pulmonary artery, but he was playing safe and ordering a CAT scan to make sure it wasn't a lymph node. Roger and I had lunch that day at the hospital cafeteria, in the prison-yard court on plastic chairs under a lowering sky. Roger said how glad he

I kept my heart alive in the desert years by turning it into a valentine, holding on to the hope of every romantic cliché like wedding cake under a pillow. If you have to wait as long as I did, you either become an awful sentimentalist or die of disillusion.

I suppose we'd been waiting for each other all our lives.

Riven eyed him sidelong. "Cale, I think … that he is waiting, too. Like the shadowwalkers." "For what?" Cale started to say, but could not find his voice at first. "For what?" "For you to let him go." Riven gestured at Jak.