Quotes About Patience

Podemos ler só para passar o tempo ou movidos por uma necessidade declarada, mas chegará o momento em que iremos ler lutando contra o tempo.

Don't automatically assume that someone is stupid or indifferent because they haven't mastered a particular task yet.

Commit to the Lord what you cannot change or understand.

Let God Be God

When someone annoys you and you feel the ire rising within, you've got to ask yourself, "Is this guy worth it? Am I willing to stoop to his or her level?

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

Integrity, humor, and patience were the three words for Atticus Finch.

But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

It ain't time to worry yet. I'll let you know when.

The easy way out of this would be to marry Hank and let him labor for her. After a few years, when the children were waist-high, the man would come along whom she should have married in the first place. There would be searchings of hearts, fevers and frets, long looks at each other on the post office steps, and misery for everybody.

Te digan lo que te digan, no permitas que te hagan perder los nervios. Procura luchar con el cerebro, para variar...

Nearly never kills a bird

After ten forevers Dr. Reynolds returned.

I waited, on tenterhooks, for Uncle Jack to tell Atticus my side of it.

Then Jem said hush a minute. I thought he was thinkin'—he always wants you to hush so he can think.

Jean Louise had a sinking feeling. The Hundred Years' War had progressed to approximately its twenty-sixth year with no indications of anything more than periods of uneasy truce.

Henry never attempted to pester her when she was thus. His attitude was Asquithian, and he knew she appreciated him for his patience. She did not know he was learning that virtue from her father. "Relax, son," Atticus had told him in one of his rare comments on her. "Don't push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county'd be easier to live with.

I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.