Quotes About Waiting

The dog does this beautiful thing, it waits. It stills itself and determines that the waiting is essential.

What I have always found most comforting about these forms is the trace of hope I get as I'm filling them out. How they break your life down into such tidy realms, making each seem tractable, because discrete, in a way they never are beyond the white noise of the waiting room. You get that fleeting sense that you're on the verge of being understood, truly and fully, and for the first time, if you could just get it all down in black and white before the receptionist calls your name.

The longer the night, the shorter the morning

It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Yet we can't wait for the undamaged to make our connections for us; we can't wait to speak until we are wholly clear and righteous. There is no purity, and, in our lifetimes, no end to this process.

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Find patience in the breath of life.

I have no patience at all.

I don't think patience is something that any of us grow up with in a large dose. It's a world of instant gratification.

I've learned patience.

Patience was not my strong point.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Being a runner has brought me a lot of patience, and patience goes a long way in life.

There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.

I try to have as much patience as possible.

Patience is the name of the game in Bollywood.

To be an actor, you have to have patience.

Fishermen and coaches have one thing in common: both need to be very patient.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I think the most difficult part is being patient for good work to come. Sometimes, you feel like giving up if things don't materialise in a short period of time.

It's hard to be patient. It's hard to sit back and actually wait and allow everything - just let it be.