Quotes About Patience

3. El derecho a no terminar un libro ¿El libro se nos cae de las manos? Que se caiga. La gran novela que se nos recite no es necesariamente más difícil que otra. No hay química. Pero ¿Cómo es posible que no le guste Stendhal? Es posible.

En otras palabras, no pierda la cabeza, nada ocurre como está previsto, es lo único que nos enseña el futuro al convertirse en pasado.

Bisognerebbe vivere a posteriori. Decidiamo tutto troppo presto.

Ils [ces professeurs habités par la passion communicative de leur matière] accompagnaient nos efforts pas à pas, se réjouissaient de nos progrès, ne s'impatientaient pas de nos lenteurs, ne considéraient jamais nos échecs comme une injure personnelle et se montraient avec nous d'une exigence d'autant plus rigoureuse qu'elle était fondée sur al qualité, la constance et la générosité de leur propre travail. (p. 259)

Mai investire nella promessa del piacere. Subito o mai.

Le temps de lire, comme le temps d'aimer, dilate le temps de vivre

Finding nemo took two hours, finding love take two people

By the end of the third day, I hated it. I hated it with all my heart. Nothing was going to change. The only thing I was learning was that boredom can hurt like physical pain, like wearing an iron hat, like sandpaper clothes, like being crushed under a big stone.

It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.

He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

No había nada más peligroso, pensó, que un hombre paciente.

You know what they say about vengeance?" "What's that?" "'If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two.'" "That's a very old Arab proverb." "It's Jewish, actually.

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. – Jewish proverb

Patience was not an American virtue.

silence, speed, timing...

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

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB

there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.7 So, like shrewd politicians, they ignore the question they are asked and answer the question they can.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Keep cool; anger is not an argument.

Blanchette stared toward the room in which Rankin's future had been diverted. Yes, he could've made it, all right, Blanchette thought. Not with his next breath or two, but by the time he was fifty, fifty-five. It was up to someone else now. The end of his cigar had a thumb of ash on it, so Blanchette flicked it on the rug, then rubbed it in with his foot. He looked

A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?

Just live and be free, not every story ends in tragedy. Just wait and see, make a date with your destiny.