Quotes About Patience

I'm about to give up, but I stop. I always try to last at least three minutes longer than giving up.

You say that someday your prince will come. More than anything, you want him to reply, But what if your prince is right under your nose? Instead he says, Well, as long as he's mot one of those deposed princes... You wish he weren't such a prince. You wish he were a frog.

The weight does not life itself, although over time it lightens. Sometimes we need to push. And sometimes that is very hard.

It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.

Think of a ball of steel as large as the world, and a fly alighting on it once every million years. When the ball of steel is rubbed away by the friction, eternity will not even have begun.

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

But if you know that you've got to be somewhere in half an hour, there's no way you can achieve that. So the art life means a freedom to have time for the good things to happen. There's not always a lot of time for other things.

How could he ever scorn Henoch? It's normal enough to grow a bit impatient with the boy from time to time. Or so he hopes. But to banish Henoch from sight, the way his own father banished him --- the very idea causes his insides to clench up. He could never do such a thing.

Fray Luis de León, volviendo a su salón de clase en Salamanca tras cinco años preso por la Inquisición: Como estaba diciendo...

We all thought Tony would be a force to be reckoned with when he grew up and we're still waiting.

The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.

A cool head. That's the secret to getting along in life, gentlemen. You

God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.

Artists are artists whether they produce or not. None of it requires much more than hanging out.

Women tended to be more docile and patient, so went the belief, and could be depended upon more than men to check and recheck the accuracy of their calculations. A typical picture of the Galton Biometrical Laboratory under Karl Pearson would have Pearson and several men walking around, looking at output from the computers or discussing deep mathematical ideas, while all about them rows of women were computing.

Given enough time, I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

I wasn't broken, just resting, readying myself for the next big thing.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation.

Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they go over the edge.

The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn't get the 4 or 5 because I'm holding out for the 7, which, I've heard on good authority, can also be used as a Taser. This will mean I'll have just one less thing to carry around.

I am optimistic that things will fall into place, and one day I'll be sitting in New York City with correct bus fare in my pocket.

A young couple strolls by, the adoration of one bouncing off the tolerance of the other.

I like the kind of man John is. He watches things closely and then does nothing with the information.

Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly.