The One Who Waits Quotes

#1. Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Tess Gerritsen

#2. Love is unmistakable and nobody loves you like the one who waits.

Keith Buckley

#3. There are three kinds of fighters: the aggressive fighter who charges in blindly trying to get the upper hand, the defensive fighter who blocks and evades until his opponent is tired, and then the most dangerous type of fighter, the one who waits for his opponent to make a mistake.

Aaron B. Powell

#4. When the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#5. 28Just leave in peace the one who waits in silence, patiently bearing the burden of God; 29Just don't interfere if he falls, gape-mouthed in the dust. There may well be hope yet. 30Just let him offer his cheek when struck. Let him be the butt of jokes.

Anonymous

#6. 4For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him. +

Anonymous

#7. To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light.

Coventry Patmore

#8. The world waits to see in those who claim to follow Jesus a passion for the only One who matters.

Robbie Symons

#9. A proud man is one who waits for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Mark Twain

#10. In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin

#11. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.

Thomas Burnett Swann

#12. One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.

James Gleick

#13. I'm the girl that waits for the director to say, 'I like that,' or 'Can you boost it up?,' or 'Can you pull it down?' I'm that kind of actor. I started in theater, so that's the feedback that I'm accustomed to. It's the feedback that I really thrive off of.

Jill Scott

#14. I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape
the lonliness of it
the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it
the whole story dosen't show.

Andrew Wyeth

#15. The clock never stops, never stops, never waits. We're growing old. It's getting late.

Ben Folds

#16. Affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade0

Charles Dickens

#17. Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Carl Sandburg

#18. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Ps. 27:14), and "I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope" (Ps. 130:5).

Kristen Feola

#19. The soul is like a caged bird, it waits for the right person to open the door and set it free.

Belinda Taylor

#20. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#21. I can count on one hand the people who are legendary in my book, and Tom Waits is certainly right at the top. It's funny, though: When I tell people that I like Tom's music, it surprises them.

Steve Vai

#22. Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

Joan D. Chittister