Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look!
Anne BishopTags: love waiting appearances
It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand years" has come today.
Yevgeny ZamyatinTags: knowledge flowers waiting anticipation bloom timeliness
He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.
Harold BrodkeyPatience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.
Gary PaulsenTags: thinking patience living waiting
Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.
Gregory CorsoTags: power waiting slackers standing slacker slacking
Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)
Suze RotoloI have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
Edward Verrall LucasTags: humor humorous waiting late tardy
Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.
Carolyn McCulleyTags: men women god trust waiting
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
Elizabeth TaylorTags: life patience strange waiting capacity greater shorter years
One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.
Oswald ChambersTags: waiting
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