Quotes About Patience

justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

His legs remembered the correct position for squatting down with toys. He played. He fit the round male studs into the round female grooves. He got some thinking done as he hunkered down on his fallen-sleep legs.

Gnaw on a disappointment long enough and it will lose all flavor.

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

How to get through the day if every indignity capsized you in a ditch? One learned to focus one's attention.

Stickups were chops - they cook fast and hot, you're in and out. A stakeout was ribs - fire down low, slow, taking your time.

I'm all for your people. You might not think so, but I am. I'm all for colored progress, but gradual. You can't do everything overnight--that would be chaos.

Things are happening too fast for her to convince herself that she does not need time to think, to get to the bottom of things.

As it turned out, one aspect of my personality would help me in my odyssey: I was a bider. Temperamentally suited to hold out for good cards, well accustomed to waiting. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.

A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were conducting a feasibility study on the implications of rain. Of committing to a course of action.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.' But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don't.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.

He had learned that the cure for fate was patience.

That he'd see the light and it'd still be in a tunnel.

There was a quote about standing in a river too long or long enough that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?

There'll be lawyers in heaven before you see somethin' so good again.

The reason a falcon is hooded is exactly the reason a falconer is not: the birds can see so well that they would most likely be distracted by other prey much further away. The falconer hoods the bird and waits. He wants the falcon to only see what he sees.

Listening to these people is like listening to trees—sooner or later the tree is sliced open and the watermarks reveal their age.

I want whatever God has for me!

Maybe these bad things are good things because they build our faith for what is to come.

So there's nothing inside of me, as a black man in this country, that will let me wait.