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Quotes About Waiting

I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Never Let Me Go
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There was not a soul to be seen, and apart from a hammering noise echoing from somewhere distant, and an occasional coughing in a room to the back of the house, there is still no sound to be heard. The landlady is clearly not yet up and about, suggesting there is little chance of her serving breakfast earlier than her declared time of seven thirty.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Un giorno, forse non molto lontano, imparerai come ci si sente ». Così rimani in attesa, anche se non sai esattamente di cosa, in attesa del momento in cui comprenderai che sei davvero diversa da loro;
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.
~ Keith Donohue
Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Is he bothering you? Nah just some old pervert waiting for the sex show. The ghost lips curled If I was alive I'd teach you some manners First I'd- I'm sure there are losts of thing you'd do to me if you were alive, but seeing as though your're not, I guess you're stuck watching... (makes a jerk-off gesture)
~ Kelley Armstrong
switchblade, he snapped it open, then waited
~ Kelley Armstrong
Yes, I know you consider it a waste of time under the circumstances, but we have time to waste.
~ Kelley Armstrong
And then it will rain.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Like vampire lore," Gabriel said. "Once they are invited in, you can't rescind the invitation and your wards are no longer effective." "Looks like you finally get vampires," I said to him. "I know you've been waiting." He sighed.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The next vehicle didn't come for a long time. It was a car full of guys not much older than us. "Quick, girls," Corey said. "Give them some incentive. Take off your--" He glanced at Sam. "Maya, take off your shirt." Sam clubbed him in the arm, hard enough to make him yelp. We waved and yelled. They waved back and kept going. Idiots.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Since when have you ever failed at something once and given up? It's an excuse, Eve- a simple excuse for avoiding the very complex problem that's you and me, and everything we did and didn't do once upon a time. You aren't ready yet. I know that. And I'll wait until you are
~ Kelley Armstrong
Mom isn't here," Corey said. "Neither is Travis. So much for my grand resurrection." He slumped onto the sofa. "We'll have to wait for them. Which is a little anticlimactic.
~ Kelley Armstrong
As we headed back into the living room, I noticed the phone on the counter. Daniel followed my gaze and laughed. "Um, yeah. We're holed up, waiting to notify someone that we're back…and there's a phone. We've been in the woods way too long.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The cats watch, but don't interfere. The witch gasps and coughs and then lies still. Her hands beat against the bed once and then are still. Still the children wait, to make sure that she is dead, and that she has nothing else to say. In the witch's house, the dead are sometimes quite talkative. But the witch has nothing else to say at this time.
~ Kelly Link
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
~ Ken Follett
But you should go to bed." "With your ladyship's permission, I'd like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again.
~ Ken Follett
Cuando esté a punto de recibir una negativa, he de conseguir un aplazamiento.
~ Ken Follett
Life was empty but for the two hours she spent with Lloyd each evening. The rest of the day was anticipation; the night was recollection. Lloyd
~ Ken Follett
he might never enter this house again. Coming
~ Ken Follett
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
~ Ken Kesey
A guy sitting in the room someplace I can't see is talking about a guy up on Disturbed that killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
~ Ken Kesey
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
~ Roland Barthes
It was Tigerstar's ambition that destroyed him. If he had been willing to wait for power to come to him, he would've been the greatest leader in the forest.
~ Erin Hunter, Outcast