Quotes About Patience

As long as nothing happens anything is possible...

But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.

disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;

An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour.

So much of war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth even starting a train of thought.

It was my bad luck that she caught me looking at my watch. I heard her voice say, 'I'm sorry. I came by bus and the traffic was bad.' I said, 'The tube's quicker.' 'I know, but I didn't want to be quick.

A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge. -If you knew how little you had to revenge....

So much of war is sitting around doing nothing, waiting for someone else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left, it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

He realised that for those who do not love time never stands still.

So much of the war is sitting around and doing nothing, waiting for somebody else. With no guarantee of the amount of time you have left it doesn't seem worth starting even a train of thought.

It was typical of Dr Hasselbacher that after fifteen years of friendship he still used the prefix Mr—friendship proceeded with the slowness and assurance of a careful diagnosis. On Wormold's death-bed, when Dr Hasselbacher came to feel his failing pulse, he would perhaps become Jim.

Eight thousand years is a very long time but

Sometimes in this life you have to understand that we don't need to know everything.

history is that impossible thing: the attempt to give an account, with incomplete knowledge, of actions themselves undertaken with incomplete knowledge. So that it teaches us no shortcuts to Salvation, no recipe for a New World, only the dogged and patient art of making do.

During this brief interval in the proceedings, we can take a pause to remind ourselves that there is an end to all this in sight and we're almost halfway there. That doesn't mean you can stop paying attention. In fact, you'll have to try harder from here on in.

Focus on the journey, not the destination.

chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.

After things settle down, we can all take our turn sticking our heads through the hole in the Sisyphus mural.

Hey, Hot Stuff, Can't wait till you get over that guy you were with. He sounds like a real jerk. Hope it's soon. You're way too tasty to be alone for too long. Come find me. I'm out here waiting. Your Future

wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted. And when you do move on and find your right person, believe me, you're not going to wish you had gotten to spend more time with Stinky the Time-Waster or Freddy Can't-Remember-to-Call.

Hey—do you remember that movie when the girl waited around for the guy to ask her out, then made excuses when he didn't? Then she slept with him when they were both drunk, and basically just hung around until they were kind of dating? Then