Quotes About Patience

Don't you see?" he said. "This could go on for another five years, another ten years, and then where would we be? You want to grow old waiting for something that's never going to happen? Is that what you want?

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Traveling can be boringly slow sometimes, even if you are effectively traveling at speeds faster than light.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.

Dios escribe derecho con renglones torcidos.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.

Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can't see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time." "Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.

It takes a long time sometimes," she said, "It can take a terrible long time before things sort themselves out.

He read the classics, the French and the German among others, but primarily the Russian, which enchanted him with their heavy patience.

She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her paintbox and her water cup within reach. Anna didn't use an easel. Easels seemed to her an altogether too assertive aid, too obvious. She liked to work as unobtrusively as possible, the paper spread on a board in her lap, close to her hand.

Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.

Anyone can lose his temper and fly off the handle. But it's better than being mean.

Antakaa minulle jotain vahvistavaa, Taikuri sanoi. - Tämä alkaa käydä hermoilleni. Muumimamma juoksutti hänelle heti pannukakkua ja hilloa ja antoi hänelle suuren lautasen.

Ja, det forstår jeg. En går helst bare ut når en må. Eller når en har lyst. Det er vel best å vente, og kjenne etter.

It was a long time before the Snork came back with the wood. "Well, there you are at last," said his sister. "It took quite a time, said the Snork, "because, of course, I had to find pieces that were all exactly the same length." "Is he always so particular?" asked Snufkin. "He was born like that," said the Snork Maiden.

Well, things can't get much worse -- that's one consolation," the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears.

Tonight I'm alone with my tune, and tonight isn't tomorrow.

Because we're going to stay here a little while and calm down until I've learned your names. Light my pipe, someone!

I grunnen hadde ingen av dem lyst til å snakke. Ennå. De hadde god tid, sommeren lå lang og full av løfter foran dem.

Isn't it a nice thing to know that someone's longing for you and waiting and waiting to see you again? (Little Creep to Snufkin)