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Quotes About Patience

He pressed his lips against her forehead in the gentlest of kisses. "I'm going to make love to you, Grace. Not right this minute. I'm not going to pressure you or rush this. But from the moment I saw you on that video surveillance tape, you were mine. I have no explanation for it. I don't even entirely understand the connection. But it's there, and I think you feel it too. I'm willing to wait until the moment is right, but you're mine.
~ Maya Banks
Play act with a baby doll. Carry around a swaddled doll so that your dog gets used to routine baby activities. Take the doll in a stroller on a walk with the dog.
~ Mayo Clinic
All will yet be well.
~ Meg Alexander
Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael.
~ Meg Cabot
Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.
~ Meg Cabot
Susannah, I love you, but you are the most frustrating woman in the world. For once in your life, don't argue. Just do it.
~ Meg Cabot
To keep one's marriage brimming, With love in the wedding cup, Whenever you're wrong admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
~ Meg Cabot
I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm- Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it.
~ Meg Cabot
Every moment away from you feels like time spent in a sort of cell. I can think of nothing, dream of nothing, but you. Unfortunately, I will have to remain in my self-inflicted prison a bit longer, since work will keep me from meeting you tonight. I can't seem to find a way to avoid this... however, I hope this gift will make up for my unforgivable behavior. I saw this and though of you, and St. George. You have slain the dragon. Until we meet again, I am your Lucien.
~ Meg Cabot
Guys don't like it when you get too heavy, I've noticed. They especially don't like it when you try to talk too much about the future. They're like little woodland animals. Everything's well and good when you're just doling out the nuts and everything's cool. But the minute you bring out the net to try to catch them - even if it's for their own good, like to help them escape a forest fire - all hell breaks loose.
~ Meg Cabot
What to Do During Algebra O what to do during Algebra! The possibilities are limitless: There's drawing, and yawning, and portable chess There's dozing, and dreaming, and feeling confused. There's humming, and strumming, and looking bemused. You can stare at the clock. You can hum a little song. I've tried just about everything to pass the time along.
~ Meg Cabot
They say it's always darkest until right before the dawn. I've worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.
~ Meg Cabot
Mia, I'm not sorry. And I'll wait. Love, Michael
~ Meg Cabot
I'll never walk again, will I? I asked, looking woefully down at my ravaged feet. You will, Jesse said. Just not for a day or two. Those burns look very painful. They'll need butter. Butter? I wrinkled my nose. The best treatment for burns like those is butter, Jesse said. Uh, I said. Maybe back in 1850. Now we tend to rely on the healing power of Neosporin. There's a tube of it in my medicine cabinet behind you.
~ Meg Cabot
Besides the age thing, Father Dom being sixty and me being sixteen, he's Mister Nice himself, whereas I'm ... Well, not. Not that I don't try to be. It's just that one thing I've learned from all of this is that we don't have very much time here on Earth. So why waste it putting up with other people's crap? Particularly people who are already dead, anyway.
~ Meg Cabot
To: Nadine Wilcock From: George Sanchez Subject: Where the hell is Fuller? She better not be in the ladies'. I swear to God, I'm beginning to think there's somebody in there serving lattes, you all spend so much time locked in those damned stalls….
~ Meg Cabot
Dirty dishwater is better than none.
~ Meg Cabot
I'm going to fall in love with someone else just as soon as I can. I swear. But in the meantime, is it so wrong that I enjoy his company?
~ Meg Cabot
Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world
~ Meg Cabot
Coming, baby,' Shana murmured. She tossed back the covers, brushed her sleep-tangled hair from her face, and slogged out of the bedroom. The hardwood floor creaked beneath her bare feet. Jaydee's cries grew clearer.
~ Meg Gardiner
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
~ Meg Rosoff
And once he observed, This has been the longest night of my life, to which she replied, The dawn is wise enough to wait some struggles out.
~ Megan Lindholm
Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time." I was totally confused. "In the car?" "In your life," he said.
~ Megan McCafferty
Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me
~ Megan McCafferty