Quotes About Waiting

Stop chasing the wrong one. The right one won't run.

Maybe I'll be able to later. I can do nearly everything later.

Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.

When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

Onde iremos viver depois da guerra? - Provavelmente num asilo de velhos - disse ela. - Durante três anos esperei infantilmente que a guerra acabasse no Natal. Mas agora não espero já o fim dela senão para quando o nosso filho for major. ------ Henry e Catherine in O Adeus Às Armas, Ernest Hemingway

By the way, if you're running from God, he's already waiting for you, wherever your journey takes you. No matter how far you run, he will be just as close to you as he was when you left.

El futuro, cuando suceda, lo oirás. De momento déjalo correr, no llores antes de hora, pues claramente llegará con los rayos de la aurora.

like a woman in a ball gown sitting at a bus stop.

She felt as though in death her father had been asked to bear the weight of that raised lid himself, and hold it up by lying there, the same way he'd lain on the hospital bed and counted the minutes and the hours to make his life go by. She stood by the coffin as she had by his bed, waiting it out with him.

SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.

being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension...without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!

Perhaps because waiting for an inevitable disaster is worse than the disaster itself.

much is gained by patience

Damian..." "Yes?" "Where are you?" "Wherever you want me to be." "I'll leave the door unlocked.

Because if it weren't a hopeless case, he wouldn't be waiting for me on my doorstep. I don't get the low-hanging fruit, the "It was the handyman with the criminal past" type of cases. I get the ones where there is no evidence. No clues. Not even a body. Just an empty place where a person used to be.

I'm learning to be patient.

You stand still, you get caught. You run, you get tired. So.... Learn to lie. Then learn to lie in wait.

I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show.

The misfortune behaved in the eternal manner of misfortunes and hawks—it hung over them for some while waiting for an appropriate moment before it attacked.

I waited here, in the tavern - it wasn't fitting, after all, for me to follow you into that haven of dubious delight and certain gonorrhea.

How does it happen, thought Ciri, what can it be ascribed to, that in all worlds, places and times, in all languages and dialects that one word always sounds comprehensible? And always similar? "Yes. I must ride to my mamma. My mamma is waiting for me.

La sventura si comportò secondo l'antichissimo uso delle sventure e degli avvoltoi: rimase qualche tempo sospesa su di loro, aspettando il momento opportuno per sferrare l'attacco.

?e jutro te? jest dzie?, to mo?e brzmie? pocieszaj?co dla g?upków. Dla zwolenników zdrowej ?ywno?ci, ale nie dla ludzi powa?nych. Dla tych, co pal?, pij? i czuwaj? po nocach. Czuwaj? wbrew ogólnemu przekonaniu, ?e nie ma na co czeka?. Bo mo?e i nie ma. Ale nie jest to powód, by nie czuwa?…

S tim je tipovima isto tako, podsje?aju na zapo?eto i malkice nedovršeno. Kao da su se zaustavili i ?ekali na nastavak evolucije ili stvaranja, kao da su ?ekali što ?e se još dogoditi i živjeli u neprestanoj sadašnjosti, koja se stalno preobli?uje u prošlost.