Quotes About Patience

More enraged men have become less patient with neoliberal trade agreements; more belligerent in their critiques of feminism, Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, academics, homosexuals, and the media; and more prepared to nudge the neoliberal side of the old machine consolidated in the early 1980s toward aspirational fascism.

Parsifal is the opera that begins at five-thirty and when you look at your watch three hours later, it is only five forty-five.

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

and you don t have to sleep alone you don t even have to sleep at all and so all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say Thank God for nothing.

I can't do nothing. Just put it off. And that don't do no good. I reckon it belong to me. I reckon what I going to get ain't no more than mine.

as though it had known to the second when I was to enter, had waited there during that entire twelve miles behind that walking mule and watched me draw nearer and nearer and enter the door at last as it had know (ay, decreed, since there is that justice whose Moloch's palate-paunch makes no distinction between gristle bone and tender flesh) that I would enter — …

I never said anything more. it doesn't do any good. I've found that when a man gets into a rut the best thing you can do is let him stay there.

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well? You were born with the habit of consuming time. Be satisfied with that.

When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found.

He…who had not waited for Time and its furniture to teach him that the end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

the long sleep that outlasts love

Hush now, she said. I'm not going to run away. So I hushed. Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

You've been running a long time, not to've got any further off than mealtime

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

He could do so much for me if he just would. He could do everything for me.

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When I finally came in and complained, she tried to explain, not for the first time, how exquisitely boring it was to watch surfing. The lulls between sets seemed to go on for hours. There had been, it was true, some fairly long lulls. My