Quotes About Patience

So the hours are pretty good then?" he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. "Yeah," he said, "but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Perhaps they are singing songs to you,' he said, 'and I just think they're asking me questions.' He paused again. Sometimes he would pause for days, just to see what it was like.

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Please relax. You will be sent for soon.

Never mind," said Ford. "Rome wasn't burned in a day.

I did better than that. I called in a neighbour's kid who used to be able to solve Rubik's cube in seventeen seconds. He sat on a step and stared at it for over an hour before pronouncing it irrevocably stuck.

always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

That is the first thing anybody has said to me for seventeen years, three months and two days, five hours, nineteen minutes and twenty seconds. I've been counting." He

He waited and waited for another accident to happen. The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

Rome wasn't burned in a day.

Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" For

He had run out of patience and pencils and was feeling very hungry.

There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.

We were just about to do nothing at all for a while but it can wait.

Unfortunately I got stuck on the Earth for rather longer than I intended

The last thing he wanted after a hellish night like this one was some blasted day coming along and barging about the place.

Sen iyi misin? dedi çocuk. Hay?r, dedi Arthur. Peki, sakal?nda neden bir kemik var? dedi çocuk. Onu, koyduÄŸum yeri sevmesi için eÄŸitiyorum.

The room was much as Slartibartfast had described it. In seven and a half million years it had been well looked after and cleaned regularly every century or so. The ultramahogany desk was worn at the edges, the carpet a little faded now, but the large computer terminal sat in sparkling glory on the desk's leather top, as bright as if it had been constructed yesterday.

Milliways!" said Ford. "Yes, sir," said the waiter, laying on the patience with a trowel, "this is Milliways—the Restaurant at the End of the Universe." "End of what?" said Arthur.

Ford grasped him by the lapels of his dressing gown and spoke to him as slowly and distinctly and patiently as if he were somebody from the telephone company accounts department.

There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth.

The chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

a patient man is better than a warrior.

God was like the phone company: You paid your bill, and sometimes you got cut off anyway.