Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

The waiting is the hardest part.

Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

Instant gratification takes too long.

The long run may be too long.

This is the hardest part for me. Just the waiting - the waiting to fight. The work has all been done, and you just have to wait.

The hardest thing about free agency is sometimes you want it right away but you have to wait and see see what happens.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy toilet paper. They waited in line for money. And if they didn't have any money they waited in longer lines. You waited to go to sleep and then you waited to awaken. You waited to get married and you waited to get divorced. You waited for it to rain, you waited for it to stop. You waited to eat and then you waited to eat again. You waited in a shrink's office with a bunch of psychos and you wondered if you were one.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.