Quotes About Patience

Delayed gratification. Yeah, it makes things sweeter. Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

and so it goes with God.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

Esperar a Oki es lo mismo que esperar el pasado… El tiempo y los ríos no corren para atrás.

Be quick as another may be waiting

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Un cerisier Boude Le printemps

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

Feedback) People become addicted to it. That's why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.

when all the time it was that grand tree, taking up half the garden with its roots and not allowing anything else to grow.

Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.

Deal with the drops when you can see the ocean." "Another

I worked regularly and kept a journal; I saw that creation was an accretive process which couldn't be hurried, and which involved patience and, primarily, love. I felt more solid myself, and not as if my mind were just a kind of cinema for myriad impressions and emotions to flicker through.

She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.

These are old secrets. They will come out like wisdom teeth when the time is right.)

But I could see she wanted to talk, that her pat phrases were like lids dancing on top of bubbling cooking pots, and all I had to do was sit patiently and wait for her to boil over.

The only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving toward genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my argument by writing well").

Nobody seemed sure if it was the last ferry. We waited. Time passed, the sky turned pink.

Maybe I put it wrong, I'm not a philosopher. To me it means something simple, like to say the future is already there, waiting for you. Why not wait, see what it brings?

I didn't know what to do with all of the sadness. A hundred and fifty years! Do you have any idea how long a hundred and fifty years is in the family of man? She clicked her fingers, and I thought of Miss Isabel, counting children in for the beats of a dance. That long, she said.

Remember, if God doesn't give you what you want, that's because it's not what you need.

They always say that people should give relationships time to develop. That sooner or later a person's real traits will be exposed. I should have listened to they.