Quotes About Waiting

The difficulty of merging two lives, of waiting for the soulmate who never arrived, of craving both freedom and love.

Strike had not been able to think of a better course of action, given that he intended to stay until he had spoken to Robin again, than continuing to drink.

D'you mind if we get going?' said Strike, checking his watch. 'I told Elin I'll be over tonight.' 'No problem,' said Robin. Yet for some reason—perhaps due to her headache, perhaps because of the lonely woman sitting in Summerfield among the memories of loved ones who had left her—Robin could easily have wept all over again.

of waiting for the soulmate who never arrived, of craving both freedom and love.

In times of grief, you're waiting for something to happen, but the thing you're waiting for has already taken place.

She was the beautiful, lethal, insinuating spider he had waited for all his life.

She was just a simple, honest woman standing in the ruin of a late winter garden, waiting for the spring. "Catherine.

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

I waited. After what seemed an hour, but which was only fifty-nine minutes,

The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that he had them on "hold," a curious expression since it was the first time in half an hour he hadn't been holding one.

From the next hour he will be reading from ancient text." "How ancient, I asked, a thousend years or last weeks?" "Very ancient, the girl said solemmly, but it is a forgivable interuption under those cicumstances, and the texts will just become more ancient in waiting.

It's more than surprising," Brian said. "To me it smacks of malpractice, especially when there's a good chance they didn't do any testing because I owe them so damn much money and they were afraid they'd not get paid. And that's on top of treating us like second-class citizens, making us wait for so long.

There's always a nest time,' said the king, 'unfortunately. You just don't know what it's going to be about.

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

Q I join the queue We move up nicely. I ask the lady in front What are we queuing for. 'To join another queue,' She explains. 'How pointless,' I say, 'I'm leaving.' She points To another long queue. 'Then you must get in line.' I join the queue. We move up nicely.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

I wait for the blackness, the emptiness, to be drawn, appropriate curtain for the theatrics with which I am burdened this night.

I've been waiting for you since the beginning of Time, Corwin." "Must have been a bit tiresome.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Murad muttered that everything had to wait till he was older, and at this rate there would be so much piled up for him to do, there would be no time for it all.

Rangarajan, your other patients are waiting. Thank you very much for your help." "But it is no trouble—" "Thank you, bye-bye," said Coomy. For a moment, Mr. Rangarajan looked offended. But he recovered his poise, wished the professor a speedy recovery, and left. They pushed Nariman's

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, age-old pastime of humanity.