Quotes About Patience

You see, it's the slow knife…the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips between the bones. That's the knife—" With her other hand, she armed the trigger device. "—that cuts deepest.

learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

The mills of the gods grind slowly....but they grind to dust.

And I learned a long time ago, if you're going to wait for this world to be fair, you're going to be waiting in the grave.

Some stories must wait to be told. Any writer worth his salt knows this. Sometimes you wait for events to percolate in your subconscious until a deeper truth emerges; other times you're simply waiting for the principals to die. Sometimes it's both. This story is like that.

24For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.

Next time, he thinks. The two best words in the English language.

Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

Mary Kay would come home after being two hours late and sit in her car for a half hour and go through mail and papers, and I'd be just sitting there waiting to go home. After the kids were sleeping... I was just sitting there. She would irritate me. ~Angie

We need to figure out what's best," she said. "Do you think you can give us some time, maybe wait this out? You'll be eighteen in four years.

Shutting up and just blinking at them is like giving them an information Heimlich," he'd said. "Be patient, and they'll cough it up all over you." Sure enough, Dina hacked it up.

He was so curious about the boys' Thanksgiving that he couldn't put into practice a skill Griffin-Hall had been trying to teach him: to stop and take a few deep breaths and reconsider what he was about to say.

handful. You can't expect

Freeman had exercised what the dapper man called his best talent: Sitzfleisch. Freeman had explained that this German word had no equivalent in English, and literally translated as "Sitflesh." It meant the ability to sit still and work quietly.

It is the triumph of reason to get on well with those who possess none

Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?

Sometimes, in India, you have to surrender before you win.

The wonder isn't that love finds us, as strange and fated and mystical as that is. The wonder is that even when we never find it, even when love waits in the wings of dream too long, even when love doesn't knock on the door, or leave messages, or put flowers in our hands, so many of us never stop believing in love.

Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast.

it's just as important to know that sometimes, no matter how wrong it is, you can't change it. A lot of the bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Waiting for nothing, that is what kills the heart of a man, isn't it?