Quotes About Patience

When you want them to die, they never do.

I know that the pendulum often has to swing a few degrees into the wrong direction before righting itself, but it does get wearing sometimes waiting for the center to catch hold.

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen.

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

It doesn't matter how long it takes. She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. It's how long it lasts.

Um ano é um século quando se espera o amor.

You all right? Diana let out a deep breath. Ask me again when I'm not praying.

Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type. You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man, Penny corrected. Or you're not.

I'll want you just as much tomorrow, he murmured, stroking her hair. And a year from tomorrow. I can promise to wait to ask you again, Shelby, but I can't promise to wait until you're ready to answer.

I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, says more. Means more. He took the hand she held out to him. We'll go down. James should be here soon

She'd learned not to hurry—had taught herself not to push, not to rush, but to take things as they came. And in a very real way to embrace every single moment.

I've got something for you inside me, Anna. He forgot his hands were grimy and laid them on her shoulders. I haven't used it up yet. This thing with you, it's one of the first times I haven't wanted to rush to the finish line.

He walked outside onto the terrace and sat. Obviously settled and comfortable, he poured coffee. There were ways and ways to gain trust, he thought. With a bird with a broken wing, it took patience, care, and a gentle touch. With a high-strung horse that had been whipped, it took diligence and the risk of being kicked. With a woman, it took a certain amount of charm. He was willing to combine all three.

If you take your time about things, you end up with the best at the end of the day. He buried his face in her hair, wanting the scent and the texture. Now, I've got the best. Good, solid stoneware.

It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?

She saw him pause to watch it, going still with his hand on a stem and his other holding a seed head. And she wished she could paint. All those vivid colors of late summer, bold and strong, and the man so still, so patient, dropping his work to share his flowers with a bird.

I think there's a reason you moved in next door. I think there's a reason I saw you all those years ago, but didn't meet you until now. I don't think I was ready for you until now.

I find that when you look too far ahead, you end up tripping over the present. Let's just worry about the now, Jared." When he lifted her hand to his lips, Savannah realized that now was going to be trouble enough.

maybe waiting. No matter how both of them had changed, evolved, restructured their lives, at the base they remained who they were.

When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you're the stupid one.

When are you going to stop being annoyed