Quotes About Patience

it was going to be all right. at last. for a while.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

waiting in a life full of little stories for a death to come

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day.

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

When can I see you again?" "In 2 hours or tomorrow." I walked to the door. You walk like a poem," she said. "See you in 2 hours," I told her.

I walk out of the dark and into the dark and sit down and wait.

Living too long takes more than time

it never happened but it seemed like there were times when rot stopped waited like a streetcar at a signal.

Endurance is more important than truth.

I waited. Nothing. I waited for God. I waited and waited. I believe I slept.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all.

then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive on its own terms.

often it takes a lifetime to learn how to react to certain critical situations. it's worth waiting for the arrival of maturity and confidence. try it sometime and see how delightful it is to feel powerful and alive.

I told her, Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world. And that, as they say, was that.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.

Eleven years. Although each night had been long, the years had gone fast.

The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.a