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- The waiting time, my brothers,
- Is the hardest time of all.
SARAH DOUDNEY, The Hardest Time of All
Waiting [is] the great vocation of the dispossessed.
MARY GORDON, New York Times, Nov. 3, 1985
We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Henry IV
When you are waiting for a train, don’t keep perpetually looking to see if it is coming. The time of its arrival is the business of the conductor, not yours. It will not come any sooner for all your nervous glances and your impatient pacing, and you will save strength if you will keep quiet. After we discover that the people who sit still on a long railroad journey reach that journey’s end at precisely the same time as those who “fuss” continually, we have a valuable piece of information which we should not fail to put to practical use.
ANNA C. BRACKETT, The Technique of Rest
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