Quotes About Patience

C'mon, Stink." Judy tapped Stink's knee with the hammer. Stink's foot shot out and kicked her in the leg. "Hey, Stink," said Judy. "You kicked me! Who do you think you are, a cassowary?

In Yeah Man (aka Yemen)

I would very much like to strangle someone. Why don't you go away until I decide it isn't you?

Why didn't you tell me to take Attolia's advice from the beginning? I thought you should figure it out. What you learn for yourself, you will know forever, said Eugenides. Pol used to say that, said Sounis, surprised. I learned it from him. I just wish to my god that I had his patience for the process.

When I am actually willing to marry you, I will wear your earrings. Don't wait for it, Thief.

Staring at the wall opposite him he presented the queen with a view of his ear and awaited her orders.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

The Attolian waited, far and away the best non-speaker I think I have ever known.

Least said, soonest mended.

At one point I muttered, "You learn something new every day." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't.

distance is not for the fearful, it's for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough

We're seeing an epidemic of people who are having a hard time making the transition to work — kids who had too much success early in life and who've become accustomed to instant gratification, ... Ready or Not, Here Life Comes.

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.

You're late, she said, tapping her watch. No, you're just early.

Trust me to return to you. I will wait forever. however long it takes.

We've been wicked for such a very long time, you know. It does get tiresome after a while.

I will wait forever, she promised. However long it takes.

Forever as it turns out, is a very long time.

Leave it alone Schuyler. For your sake and mine.

I give myself to you. she whispered. No. Not yet, he sighed. If not now, when?... Time might be running out for me. For us.

Trust me to return to you I will wait forever

It is my turn to wait. Funny that in all these months we have been meeting, it was always she waiting for me.