Waited Quotes

#1. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."

T. Kingfisher

#2. Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most.

Linda Winfree

#3. Leo waited while the fish centaur put away his supplies. Aphros's lobster-claw horns kept swimming around in his thick hair, and Leo had to resist the urge to try and rescue them.

Rick Riordan

#4. Had I realized at the time that for Austerlitz certain moments had no beginning or end, while on the other hand his whole life had sometimes seemed to him a blank point without duration, I would probably have waited more patiently.

W.G. Sebald

#5. If I waited long enough and said, "Okay, so what you're saying is you liked your life a lot better when you were 30?" everybody would get real quiet and then admit that that wasn't the case, that they really felt like they were sort of growing into themselves in a way.

Anna Quindlen

#6. Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Robert Breault

#7. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.

The Eichmann Trial, page 17

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#8. On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

Peter Roebuck

#9. We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

John Osborne

#10. I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others."
"And?" I asked.
"Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.

Deb Caletti

#11. Me and Mama never did like the smell of cigarettes but after Daddy died, sometimes we would light one up and put it in his old ashtray. Today I stayed behind the man at Fletcher's and waited a little while in the cloud of smoke.

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#12. Memorial branch had fallen on its side, but it was still visible, poking up out of the water below the Highledge. Brackenfur and Dustpelt waded over to it and dragged it back to the bushes where the other cats waited. "It's not floating very well," Brackenfur

Erin Hunter

#13. After she'd called for the car, they waited outside while it drove itself over.

William Gibson

#14. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.

Cecelia Ahern

#15. We hear again and again from founders, that they wish they had waited to start a startup until they came up with an idea they really loved.

Sam Altman

#16. She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Laini Taylor

#17. I waited a long time," I whispered.
"For what?" he asked.
"For you

Kristen Ashley

#18. Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

Zora Neale Hurston

#19. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!

Conor Oberst

#20. She had waited so long for this. For this intimacy to be whole, complete, to unquestionably mean love.

Noelle Adams

#21. The waited stopped by and Nathan order a cup of coffee.
"No cake?" I asked, surprised.
He patted his flat stomach. "Trying to watch my figure."
I laughed. "Whatever, Captain Skittles.

Elicia Hyder

#22. If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.

Brandon Stanton

#23. If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

C.J. Sansom

#24. 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.

Karen Marie Moning

#25. I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Ellen Glasgow

#26. I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Peter Dinklage

#27. If we waited until everyone was unbroken, we'd never connect with anyone

Lynn Charles

#28. I blew out the flame, and when my breath hit his face, his eyes closed. I waited for them to reopen, but they didn't.

Raziel Reid

#29. Rowan waited, knowing she was gathering the words, hating the pain and sorrow and guilt on every line of her body. He'd sell his soul to the dark god to never have her look like that again.

Sarah J. Maas

#30. I can't, Caro, it's out of my hands now. But I promise it's temporary. I just ... after all this time ... I wanted us to be able to spend more than a few hours together." He stared at his hands. "I don't know when I'll see you again," he mumbled. "I've already waited ten years.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#31. ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.

Kahlil Gibran

#32. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.

Alice Sebold

#33. I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.

Neal Shusterman

#34. In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.

John Steinbeck

#35. I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.

Toni Morrison

#36. Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you have only waited for this moment to arise.

The Beatles

#37. We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this: that I loved her and she loved me, and we had waited long and long, would be parted no longer.

Gene Wolfe

#38. I waited for him to pick up the thread again - and when he didn't, we sat there peacefully, while I sipped my cooling tea (Lapsang Souchong, smoky and peculiar) and felt the strangeness of my life, and where I was.

Donna Tartt

#39. Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.

Lauren Wolk

#40. You may not be aware, ma douce, but not all vampyre have a kindred, some will live out their existence without such beauty in their lives. I have waited five hundred years for you.

Nicola Claire

#41. I have waited a very long time to be able to have inappropriately timed discussions about the status of our relationship with you. I don't intend to let my own stupidity take this opportunity away from me.

Seanan McGuire

#42. So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#43. Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption.

Nalini Singh

#44. My gentle Reader, I perceive / How patiently you've waited, / And now I fear that you expect / Some tale will be related. / O Reader! had you in your mind / Such stores as silent thought can bring, / O gentle Reader! you would find / A tale in every thing.

William Wordsworth

#45. The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would some day come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.

Stephen King

#46. There's not much to any of us once you take out all the water. How much is left in a person, do you think?" She waited for an answer. "Probably less than a two-liter," Lincoln said, still feeling like it would be rude to act as if this was anything other than normal conversation.

Rainbow Rowell

#47. Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again.

Neil Gaiman

#48. You are everything to me, Princess."

"Then come and love me," I said softly to him. "I've waited forever for you to touch me again.

Jill Myles

#49. Stop thinking so much. Tell me, what do you want?" Logan held his breath as he waited for Tate's frank response.
"You. Everything else aside, I still want you.

Ella Frank

#50. And I saw my reflection in a lake and I waited for it to freeze a little bit so I could break it with my boot.

Sam Pink

#51. Breakfast was all about possibilities. No other meal allowed for so much choice - sweet or savory, light or heavy? Tea or coffee? And while enjoying the fruit of these decisions, the whole day waited, unsullied, to be filled up like a plate.

Erin Satie

#52. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.

Kathleen Winter

#53. Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until the end of time. You want to do this, then you've got to work for it. Now, TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES."
"Oh," said Hugh. "I've waited ten years to hear you say that to another woman.

Richelle Mead

#54. When Jan was called up to service a fourth time...my mother waited outside...the two of them were convinced that this time Jan would have to go, that they would surely send him off to cure his ailing chest in the air of France, famed for its iron and lead content.

Gunter Grass

#55. Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able to accept religion it captured his heart and enslaved his mind. The supreme delusion united with the supreme host.

C.J. Anderson

#56. Then it occurred to me: You either waited for someone else to do the right thing, or you stood up and did it yourself.

Eileen Cook

#57. I punched Sawyer's number into my phone and waited while it rang.
"Hello." The cautious tone in his voice told me he knew I'd just found out.
"Meet me on the field, now," I growled.
"You know," he replied in a weary tone.
"Yeah, you stupid fuck, I know.

Abbi Glines

#58. You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea.

Ed Sheeran

#59. I don't think you could've picked a better time to tell me you love me than tonight. So I'm happy you waited.

Colleen Hoover

#60. No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

Jim Elliot

#61. Is there a particular way you'd like to end up on the floor this time?" he asked as he shifted his stance and waited for me to attack. "Or do you just want me to surprise you?"
"Gee, if I get a choice, how about if I end up on top this time?

Devon Monk

#62. then sat down to do what every galactic hitchhiker ends up spending most of his time doing. They waited for a flying saucer to come by.

Douglas Adams

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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#64. The way you walked away
The way you stopped and waited
All that time
What was in your heart?
A laugh?
A sarcasm?

Couldn't we be lovers?
Though we have never walked together

Shasika Amali Munasinghe

#65. I never dreamed any fuckin' dream," he whispered, and the smile faded from her face as tears filled her eyes.
She understood him.
"Shy-"
"Didn't dream it, saw it, waited my time, and then you gave it to me.

Kristen Ashley

#66. I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.

Aryn Kyle

#67. I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

Kelly Batten

#68. And for the Keeper, waves splashed, trees swayed, stones protected knowledge, and wind waited for orders.

Jeffrey Overstreet

#69. I shrugged and waited for the doors to close before sliding my arm around her waist.

Robyn Schneider

#70. It," I said fiercely. I grabbed his face in my hands and waited until he opened his eyes. "You and me. That's the only thing that matters. The only thing you're allowed to think about now. Do you hear me?

Stephenie Meyer

#71. The fans may be surprised to know that during my freshman year at Oglethorpe, I waited on tables and never made an error, never dropped a tray nor broke a dish.

Luke Appling

#72. We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.

Daniel Silva

#73. His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him - bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or ...
... or tap him on the shoulder.

Dave Barry

#74. I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.

Frances Beinecke

#75. Sufre mas el que espera siempre
que aquel que nunca espero a nadie?
Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?

Pablo Neruda

#76. He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#77. A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

#78. Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didn't want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

Ray Lamontagne

#79. He waited for me to take his hand, smiling down at me with the same smile that was so beautiful, I knew this could not possibly end well for me.

Kelley R. Martin

#80. At last the spring thaw came, and graves were laboriously prepared for the nine silent harvests of the grim reaper which waited in the tomb.

H.P. Lovecraft

#81. Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

#82. If everyone waited to do something good until they had purely unselfish motivations, no good would ever get done in the world. The point is to do it anyway.

Wendy Mass

#83. He stayed that way for a while, fallen man, porcelain angel, as if the two of them waited for a bus.

Mitch Albom

#84. I've waited three lifetimes for you, and now that I've got you, I'm keepin' you.

Kristen Ashley

#85. Adam has the most engaging smile and I realize, this is a private smile reserved just for me ... like he's waited his whole life for just one smile.

Ashley Pullo

#86. I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

Zoe Heller

#87. I waited a decade," she said. "And then I waited some more. I've waited enough. It's your turn to catch up.

J.M. Darhower

#88. You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#89. The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.

Leigh Bardugo

#90. My heart always knew, you're the dew, my dry soul would never adieu.. but I still don't know why I let you go and waited all my life just for you.

Syed Arshad

#91. A fool's errand, Little One. If you waited until all my wounds were healed, you would be here forever.

Tiffany Reisz

#92. suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.

Edna O'Brien

#93. Furi stood by the bed. He never broke eye contact as he kicked off his shoes, then leisurely removed each article of clothing. Furi was stark naked as he waited for Syn's next order. How the tables have turned. "Get

A.E. Via

#94. My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar.

Melissa Rauch

#95. I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Dick Gregory

#96. Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Arthur C. Clarke

#97. Dinner waited for us: steaks and potatoes and manly things, items of a manly meal. Also vodka cranberries.

Adam P. Knave

#98. Everyone at the bar turned toward The Breeze and waited, as if the next few words he spoke would reveal the true meaning of life, the winning numbers of the lottery, and the unlisted phone number of God.

Christopher Moore

#99. She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Zora Neale Hurston

#100. Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass?

Dana Marton