Quotes about waiting
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“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”

Beverly Cleary book Ramona the Pest

Source: Ramona the Pest

Life, Girl

“Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize… Vienna waits for you.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

Vienna.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)
Context: But you know you can't always see when you're right
You got your passion you got your pride
But don't you know only fools are satisfied?
Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true
When will you realize
Vienna waits for you?

Dreams, Imagination

“I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling… I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not, I just did it.”

Stephen J. Cannell (1941–2010) American television producer, writer, novelist and occasional actor

Home, Coffee

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Beauty, Girl

“When you know you love someone, when you know it's finally the right time, you don't just wait around for the right words, you just say the sentences even if they're all mixed up and imperfect.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Coming Up for Air

Love, Time

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Spring, Summer

“The Facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

People, Books

“She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Parent, Reading

“But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

Men, Marriage, Books

“I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Runaway

Sister

“Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Anything else?"

Haymitch rises to go. "While I was waiting… I ate your lunch.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: While I was waiting... I ate your lunch.
Source: Mockingjay

“That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder book By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Death

“Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.”

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

A Hard Day's Knight

“I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 73, p. 230

Books, Faith, Way, Girl

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Life, Thinking

“I’ll wait out here until the two of you are finished. Just call out if you need anything. Like a priest, cop, or lion tamer. (Aimee)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

“I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: One Last Thing Before I Go

Universe

“You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place…”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Fear

“Wait."
"So what am I supposed to do now?"

"You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey."

(222-223)”

Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese

Source: American Born Chinese

Mountain

“Such Small Things:
For a long time there were only your footprints & laughter in our dreams & even from such small things, we knew we could not wait to love you forever.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Love, Dreams, Laughter, Time

“Could it be as simple as that? Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness? A line of crumbs made of memories, to lead you back to the person who was waiting?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

Love, Forgiveness, Memory, Personality

“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”

Bob Hope (1903–2003) American comedian, actor, singer and dancer

Christmas, Love, Idea, Fashion

“This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place… and the world waits while she powders her nose.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer

World, Chance

“The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Variant: You have passed through the two hardest tests on the spiritual road: the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what you encounter.
Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Courageous, Disappointment, Courage, Patience

“He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Soul

“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Life

“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

Dogs

“What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.”

George Balanchine (1904–1983) Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983)

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

War, Home, Night

“there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Failure

“I've been waiting a long time for a quest, seaweed brain," she said. "Athena is no fan of Poseidon, but if you're going to save the world, I'm the best person to keep you from messing up.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

World, Time, Personality

“He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Dreams, Idea

“I told you, Ms. Lane, never believe anything is dead-"
"- I know, I know, until you've 'burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Variant: Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.
Source: Bloodfever

Dead

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

Ma Jian (1953) Chinese writer

Source: Red Dust: A Path Through China

“I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

“I assure you, princess, if you saw the real me, you’d run for cover. (Zarek)
Only if I knew you’d be waiting under that cover for me. (Astrid)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Princess

“I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

Hope

“All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Also: Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— "Wait and hope". Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117 Variant: All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

Wise, Hope, Wisdom, Hope

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“Great. I'd been dumped in Hell's waiting room.”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

Hell

“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out.
I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq.
We've been following time as it goes forward.
What a classic mistake. Linear time is so pre-9-11.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Time

“I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

World

“The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.”

Nicholas Evans (1950) British producer and writer

Life

“And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!”

Ruth Ozeki book A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

Problem, Time, Reading

“Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have
something else in mind. And…”
She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the
fourth answer?”
“Wait,” she said.”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Bumped

Way

“Don't simply knock and wait for the door to be opened. Go look for the keys. Some fit the lock better than others.”

Christopher Pike book Sati

Source: Sati

“I'm not broken, I'm ruined. Do you understand the difference? With broken maybe you can fix things. Ruined? All you can do is wait to bury me.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Understanding

“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. [laughter] The lady's not for turning.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Reacting to doubt over her economic policies http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/10/newsid_2541000/2541071.stm at a Conservative Party Conference (10 October 1980) A play on The Lady's Not for Burning, a 1948 play by Christopher Fry about a witchcraft trial. First term as Prime Minister

Laughter

“At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, People, Time, Cry

“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4