Waiting Quotes

Um... I mumbled, We wait.What? Wait? Do you expect them to just come up here to the beach to get some moonlight? He sneered as he took another bite of the eagle.

~ Grace Fiorre

For a good ten minutes or so we stand there with the flashlight burning the grave with light. The whole time, I'm trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla's been without him for sixty-years. I can tell. No other man has entered her life. Not the way her Jimmy did. She's been waiting sixty years for Jimmy to come back. And now he has.

~ Markus Zusak

Waiting. That’s always what being a spy comes down to, isn’t it?

~ Embee

Now she sat in their dining hall, a book in her lap but unread while she stared blankly across the room.Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

~ G.a. Aiken

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

I don't want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is nothing more sacred or profound than this day.I choose to believe that there may be a thousand big moments embedded in this day, waiting to be discovered like tiny shards of gold. The big moments are the daily, tiny moments of courage and forgiveness and hope that we grad onto and extend to one another. That's the drama of life, swirling all around us, and generally I don't see it, because I'm too busy waiting to become whatever it is I think I'm about to become. The big moments are in every hour, every conversation, every meal, every meeting.

~ Shauna Niequist

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don’t expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

~ Richie Norton

We spend most of our lives doing nothing but waiting. Waiting things that always change.

~ ياسر أحمد

Marriage is nothing to underestimate. Success in marriage is about getting back up, again and again. Ultimately, the Shulamite had to write her own role in Solomon's drama. She made Solomon's problems her problems. For her, that was worth every bruise.pg ii

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

Sometimes the planning and the work is not the most difficult aspect of an endeavor; it’s the waiting—waiting to see if the preparation, the implementation, and the bait, will land a catch—waiting, that time in between the effort and the result, the source of so much hope, frustration, doubt, anxiety, and perhaps, disenchantment. It can try those with even the firmest resolve.

~ Paul J. Bartusiak

You have a direct line to Christ; He’s waiting for your call. HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.

~ Paula Heller Garland

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

~ Guillaume Musso

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!

~ Charlotte Brontë

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

~ Elizabeth Berg

The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.

~ Neal Shusterman

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You remember how he used to be girl on either arm? You really don't see that guy too much anymore. Why do you think that is? He's waiting for you. I know you're dealing with stuff but you cannot ask him to wait forever! Unless of course, you're okay with him pulling away.What if it doesn't work out? What if it ends up like you and Javier?Well at least we gave it a shot. And so it didn't work out, so what? Now, we can move on give or take the occasional booty call.I just don't wanna lose what we have, you know?Girl please! What exactly do you have, really?A friendship.No. What you and I have is a friendship. What you and castle have is a holding pattern. How long can you circle before the fuel runs out?

~ Richard Castle

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

~ Galt Niederhoffer

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

~ Ann Patchett

A minute or so passed by--not long, but long enough to make me wonder whether Oliver was setting up mood lighting or hiding dead bodies. Or if someone was up there waiting to stab me again. Or if someone was up there waiting to hand me a crown and tell me I was the long-lost princess of Genovia. Or if I'd tumble into a pit of lava, only to get saved at the last second by a flying carpet.

~ Lindsay Ribar

This is the worst thing about waiting for someone. You have to look good all the time because they could turn up at any minute and see you before you've seen them

~ Mark Mason

They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.

~ Ann Patchett

The difference between this waiting period and the wait that I had already been enduring was that I was no longer hoping that he would see me, wishing that he would work, or wondering if he would care. Instead, I knew that he would be at work in my marriage, and that somehow, someway, someday he would be glorified through our sufferings.

~ Tracie Miles

Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.

~ Melina Marchetta

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

~ C.s. Lewis

This is torture, torture, torture.Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened???I'm not as nice in the world today. I am scowly. I am trying to be good and not fussy, but frankly, this is less fun. And I am getting grumpy about the prospect of many, many more days like this ahead.

~ Bill Shapiro

Outside the seasons passed: sun, snow, spring green, October storms . . . was this a vision of my future? When would the shunning hero come, to set the clock if my life in motion again? Would he come some morning, or in the night? In April or December? This year? Next year? I shuddered. No, I wouldn't just sit and wait. I wanted to go out. Maybe there were new men out there, better men, men who'd just been waiting for me. Somewhere someone is always waiting for someone.

~ Eva Heller

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

~ Barbara Corcoran

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

~ T. S. Eliot

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

~ Sid Meier

In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color.

~ Sandra Cisneros

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

~ Joseph Campbell

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

~ Jules Renard

Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.

~ Christina Milian

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

~ Douglas Haig

Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure.

~ Naveen Jain

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

~ Bernie Siegel