Quotes About Patience

It's wrong. I know, it's wrong to give up. But sometimes life just seems to be going on for such a long time." The

we learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American of pleasures!—

most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

and they fished and fished for hours, taking turns, but neither of them knew how to fish, or maybe they were just unlucky, and though they felt nibbles, they caught nothing, and it was as though they were merely feeding their bread to the insatiable brine

He preferred to abide, in a sense, in the past, for the past offered more to him.

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn?t need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

The old woman had become a rich woman on paper, the house now worth a fortune, and her children were always pestering her to sell it, saying she didn't need all that space. But she told them to be patient, it would be theirs when she died, which wouldn?t be long now, and she said this kindly, to sharpen the bite of it, and to remind them how much they were motivated by money

if they had but waited and watched their relationship would have flowered again, and so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born. Jealousy

What could not be changed must be borne. And since nothing could be changed, everything had to be borne.

If you are strong you withstand the storm. Can you see? The storm comes and everything is blurred. But all that is built on a solid foundation has only to stand fast and wait for the storm to pass.

Sandor waited. Sometimes the most important work was done in the silences.

When I stand around all day, into the afternoon, I start to feel like a good bike pulled to the curb. I'm every car that's ever idled, a motorcycle gulping its own exhaust, lurching toward open road. I'm paid to stand, and I get this feeling my body is waiting for my mind to figure out what I'm supposed to do with being alive.

It does take time. From the day I laid eyes on her, I wished Miss Louise Grady could just once look at me and see me. For years I kept that twinkling chance like a jewel in a box. That's what unrequited means.

TaÅŸk?n ve azg?n bir tutku giriÅŸtiÄŸimiz iÅŸe yarardan çok zarar getirir,olaylar?n ters gitmesi, gecikmesi kar??s?nda sab?rs?zl??a sürükler bizi, iÅŸlerine bakt???m?z insanlardan soÄŸutur, kuÅŸkuland?r?r. Bizi avucuna alan ve sürükleyen bir iÅŸi kendimiz iyi yönetemeyiz hiçbir zaman. Oysa iÅŸe yaln?z kafas?n? ve ustal???n? koyan daha rahat yürütür iÅŸi.

it goes back to the garden telling a story. You make up bits and play with them to see if they ring true. Sometimes this works out first time and all is well and good, but as often as not you have to fiddle and reshape until it is right.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.

Don't do it. Please. I know this book looks delicious with its light-weight pages sliced thin a prosciutto and swiss stacked in a way that would make Dagwood salivate. The scent of freshly baked words wafting up with every turn of the page. Mmmm page. But don't do it. Not yet. Don't eat this book.

Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long.

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A better formula is this: Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.

In tackling a difficult book for the first time, read it through without ever stopping to look up or ponder the things you do not understand right away.

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly

She spent a few passive years simply waiting for annoying people around her to die, like a horse who occasionally flicks its tail at a fly. To experience the other side of the coin, she also spent some years practicing aggressive revenge against those who wronged her, and found the passive life more enjoyable.