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Quotes About Patience

Listen to the wind. It can blow dreadfully here. In the winter it blows so that it would drive you mad. It blows day after day, and one becomes so restless. What do you think of my page? Your - Mr. Nolan? He seems very devoted. I think he would let me kill him slowly.
~ Iris Murdoch
Disnae matter if it's Mickey Platini or Franco Begbie, they will aw just have tae wait.
~ Irvine Welsh
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
~ Irving Karchmar
Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
~ Irving Stone
The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.
~ Irving Stone
Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose partique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie.
~ Irving Stone
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
~ Isaac Asimov
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
~ Isaac Asimov
Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
~ Isaac Asimov
Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.
~ Isaac Asimov
Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle."   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.
~ Isaac Asimov
Why, they are so sure of themselves that they do not even hurry. They move slowly, phlegmatically; they speak of necessary centuries. They swallow worlds at leisure; creep through systems with dawdling complacence.
~ Isaac Asimov
No ha dicho cuando volverá. Hardin contestó: -Lo sé…; ¡Pero espero que no vuelva hasta que usted y yo estemos segura y cómodamente muertos!
~ Isaac Asimov
Ah, the future good!" Leebig's eyes glowed with passion and he seemed to grow less conscious of his listener and correspondingly more talkative. "A simple concept, you think. How many human beings are willing to accept a trifling inconvenience for the sake of a large future good?
~ Isaac Asimov
people who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment
~ Isaac Asimov
We are to do nothing, is that right, except to wait in quiet serenity and utter faith for the deus ex machina to pop out of the Vault?" "Stripped of your emotional phraseology, that's the idea." "Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it." Fara smiled indulgently. "Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.
~ Isaac Asimov
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
~ Isabel Allende
Es cosa de tiempo, ojo y corazón
~ Isabel Allende
No hagamos promesas que tal vez no podamos cumplir. Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, día a día, con la mejor intención. Eso es lo único que podemos prometernos.
~ Isabel Allende
Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.
~ Isabel Allende
Una vez me dijiste que los viejos hacen el amor sin prisa. No es mala idea. Vamos a querernos como un par de abuelitos, ¿qué te parece?
~ Isabel Allende
El tiempo transcurre muy lento. O tal vez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo.
~ Isabel Allende
I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.
~ Isabel Allende
His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting the seventh. She knew it would be male because God was determined to test her patience.
~ Isabel Allende