Quotes About Patience

That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to work that out.

He had, by now, the look of a man who was waiting for something which had happened long before.

Even in sleep, he was waiting, a little tense like everyone waiting within reach of a telephone, for it to ring. And still, even in sleep, he knew there would be time. Adam, after all, lived for nine hundred thirty years.

For the first time in months) he put his arm around her; but his hand, reaching her shoulder, did not close upon it, only rested there. They swayed a little, standing in the doorway, still holding each other together in a way of holding each other back: they still waited, being moved over the surface of time like two swells upon the sea, one so close upon the other that neither can reach a peak and break, until both, unrealized, come in to shatter coincidentally upon the shore.

Nothing can be given, which cannot also be withheld.

Don't anticipate outcome," the man said. "Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.

And the Yak, they can afford to move so fucking slow, man, they'll wait years and years. Give you a whole life, just so you'll have more to lose when they come and take it away. Patient like a spider. Zen spiders.

Architectural photography can involve a lot of waiting; the building becomes a kind of sundial, while you wait for a shadow to crawl away from a detail you want, or for the mass and balance of the structure to reveal itself in a certain way.

his face expressionless, the tip of his cane planted neatly on the sidewalk and his large hands one atop the other on the brass knob. "First thing that you learn," he said, with the tone of a man reciting a proverb, "is that you always gotta wait . . .

Hi!' it said, 'wait a minute!

I just think you'll get back all right.

Sen de en az benim kadar iyi biliyorsun, hayat katlan?lmaz uzunlukta, gelgelelim katlanmak zorunday?z

The Prince found Buttercup waiting unhappily outside his chamber doors. It's my letter,' she began. 'I cannot make it right.' Come in, come in,' the Prince said gently. 'Maybe we can help you.' She sat down in the same chair as before. 'All right, I'll close my eyes and listen; read to me.' Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup.' She looked at Humperdinck. 'Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

My Westley will come for me.

Get used to disappointment.

The infant is ten and he stays

What with one thing and another, three years passed.

I must know! Get used to disappointment.

don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped.

Tennessee said it best: "Sometimes there's God so quickly.