quotations about waiting
In my opinion, the waste of waiting is the worst waste of them all!
CURT KNOLL
"Operator Balance", Industry Week, November 1, 2016
I waited though wanting nothing,
then waited longer.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"Lure"
A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
SHARON CREECH
Absolutely Normal Chaos
It's the waiting that builds the character, sets the foundation, develops the useful habits and tests our courage. It's the waiting that separates us from the pack. It's the waiting that holds all the necessary ingredients that eventually makes our dreams come true.
ANNA LIND THOMAS
"Life is lived in the waiting, so make the best of it", Omaha World-Herald, February 3, 2017
The season of Lent is a time of waiting, and waiting is one of the great themes of the Christian life. In John's Gospel, we wait for Jesus and we wait with Jesus as the question of his contested identity presses in.
TIMOTHY GEORGE
"Waiting For And With Jesus", First Things, April 3, 2017
Waiting is not just about passing the time between the moment when expectation is raised and when it comes to completion ... it has deep and lasting value in and of itself.
PAULA GOODER
The Meaning Is in the Waiting
All things come to those who wait.
FRENCH PROVERB
With today's technology, why are we still waiting in lines? Is there anything more frustrating or more wasteful than standing in line? Why don't we know what kind of wait to expect at our favorite restaurant, at the grocery store, at the DMV, or at the airport security line? With today's technology, this information should be at our fingertips.
RICH KENNY
"The Day the World Stopped Waiting", PR Rocket, February 5, 2016
I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?
JERRY SEINFELD
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college "adult" person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Then the married person, then the person I'd become when we have kids. For twenty years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that's when life will really begin. And through all that waiting, here I am. My life is passing, day by day, and I am waiting for it to start. I am waiting for that time, that person, that event when my life will finally begin.
SHAUNA NIEQUIST
Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.
ROBERT JORDAN
The Fires of Heaven
Waiting is almost an actionless action: the action of inaction, the suspension of movement, the anticipation of action rather than action itself.
DIANE ELAM
"Waiting in the Wings", Acts of Narrative
Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
HERMANN HESSE
Siddhartha
A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.
MARKUS ZUSAK
Underdog
Everyone's tolerance for waiting is different.
KATE SILVER
"Ten ways to diminish travel stress", Pocono Record, April 22, 2017
Mostly, waiting is expectation. One waits for something, which one supposes, fears or hopes will happen. When someone waits for something, he is entirely fulfilled by what he expects. He looks forward to it so much that he hardly allows himself really to experience the wait. Waiting is something that one had to put up with for the sake of a purpose, something entirely temporary, mere condition of fulfillment, a state of lack that one wants to overcome as fast as possible. One stops waiting as soon as one gets what one wants.
HANS-JOST FREY
Interruptions
I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
Girl Goddess #9
Everything comes to him who waits -- if he waits till it comes.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS
Adventures and Enthusiasms