Quotes About Waiting

And your husband? Where is he?" I was tempted to tell him it was none of his business. After all, we'd paid for the tickets, hadn't we? "He's in New York. Waiting for us." "He'd better be," the man said. "If he doesn't come to collect you from Ellis Island, they'll just send you straight home again. They don't want women and children who'll be a burden on the state.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

desde las 3:00 p.m. hasta las 3:33. Y entonces yo, con el corazón quieto y los pulmones cerrados, sometido por las preguntas sin respuesta de la espera, voy paso por paso hasta la casa número tres.

Good things come to those who wait, but shit pretty much shows up right away, doesn't it?

Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Use the same waiting schedule for naps, but if your child has not fallen asleep after half an hour, or if he is awake again and calling or crying vigorously after even a short period of sleep, end that nap time.

At home he found the same threats waiting for him. He unlocked the door and stepped into the trap he had formed around him.

The morning overstays its welcome long before noon.

The fact is, their obsessions interlock. Each has half of a secret message. What else can he do but try to fit the halves together? And if they spin out, wake from the dream with nothing, what has he sacrificed but solitary waiting? Nick sits in his ancestors' empty bedroom after midnight, reading by the lantern's low glow.

All three of them chuckle. But the chuckle is like pressing on a wound. Improve forest health. As if forests were waiting all these four hundred million years for us newcomers to come cure them.

He waits too long, and time replies for him.

The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days. Not only is it "Always Advent," but every day can now be Christmas because the one we thought we were just waiting for has come once and for all.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. It never rushes to judgment, and in fact avoids making quick judgments because judgments have more to do with egoic, personal control than with a loving search for truth.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.

No, you wish. You have to be careful of wishing. It can hurt. It's better to wait until you know. Waiting for your father to turn up won't make him do it.

Miranda hurried up to her room, shocked to find Etienne already waiting for her. "Hey," he greeted her. "What took you so long?" "You're impossible.

Sara would listen for his plane in the afternoons. It did not make sense, but she could hear it even before the dogs could.