#waiting

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emmanuel #lost-at-sea #love #missing #storm

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. The was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of witing. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#waiting #death

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out. ↗

— Russel Honore

#cash register #counter #families #frustrated #get

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#die #make #prosperity #sure #trick

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#big #boy #dog #even #go

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#corner #forest #go #others #sometimes

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#desperate #faces #got #idea #know

It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#big #difference #dressed #get #little

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates. ↗

— Bill Brandt

#could #effect #expect #hope #lost

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#am #come #everyone #i #i am