Quotes about Waiting
God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.
- Lauraine Snelling
On the steps of a church, awaiting the coming-up of the tumbrils, stands the Spy and prison-sheep. He looks into the first of them: not there. He looks into the second: not there. He already asks himself, "Has he sacrificed me?" when his face clears, as he looks into the third. "Which is Evremonde?" says a man behind
- Charles Dickens
We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.
- Charles Dickens
We have none of us long to wait for Death. Patience, patience! He'll be here soon enough for us all.
- Charles Dickens
He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?
- Charles Dickens
Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.
- Greg Laurie
You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd come. If he didnt you'd still have to figure that he knew what he was doin. I don't know what other description of God you could have. So what you end up with is that those he has spoke to are the ones that must of needed it the worst. That's not a easy thing to accept.
- Cormac McCarthy
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
- Cormac McCarthy
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.
- Cormac McCarthy
Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- Cormac McCarthy
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you
- Walt Whitman
All truths wait in all things
- Walt Whitman