Waiting is a form of passive persistence.

Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!

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

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!

As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are...

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves – or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

Unfortunately, with fertility, time is not your friend. People are waiting longer to get married and longer to have kids, and so many more people are experiencing fertility issues. But no one ever talks about...

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

I would encourage people that, if you are waiting for the end of ‘The Office,’ to re-tune in right away. It is the beginning of the end, where we start to break down what’s going...

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we...

Patience is learned through waiting

One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot,’ billed as ‘the laugh sensation of two continents,’ made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida, in 1956. My father, Bert Lahr, was playing Estragon, one...

I’ll come back to you,” I say. “I promise you, if it’s the last thing I do, I’ll come back to you.”Her face is buried in my neck. She nods.”I’ll count the minutes until you...

Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

I’m 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can’t stay home waiting for something different. I think it’s a total waste...

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

It’s hard being left behind. (…) It’s hard to be the one who stays.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to “give up”. Tell them “not me”.

The seeker might aim to hide too, make sure the person you are waiting for is trustworthy if not there will be no one looking for you.

The answer to prayers is for the appointed time. God’s honour is at stake to response to the supplications of His Children in His timing.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just...

Waiting patiently for the fatest bone is a dog’s lifestyle.

Our universe is not suitable for waiting. This universe is a ‘we must do something universe,’ it is a ‘we must be serious universe!’ Think fast, think right and implement your thoughts very fast! To...

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

It’s impossible to park on Tremont or even idle there for more than 30 seconds. A platoon of meter maids, imported from the female Hitler Youth shortly after the fall of Berlin, roam the street,...

For whom am I waiting? I don’t know, at this point in my life there doesn’t seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.

On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside. Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and...

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

I’ll be waiting in my trunk, with the engine of your car.

…sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man – not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a “Reserved” sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact...

it” is…so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

But there’s a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Patience isn’t tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited...

Policeman says, “Son you can’t stay here”I said, “There’s someone I’m waiting for if it’s a day, a month, a year”Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snowsIf she changes her mind this...

And on the worn book of old-golden I brought not here to read, it seems, but holdAnd freshen in this air of withering sweetness;