Quotes About Patience

You can't hear a whisper if you're constantly shouting.

The pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

Ladies, we're going on a stakeout.

Michael Buckley

I don't work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I can't refuse - and I'm not talking about money.

A bit early to put all the chips in the fryer just yet. Why don't you just wait and see? Remember: There's a reason the Fairy godmother gave Cinderella two glass slippers.

She'd spent enough time trying to read the tea leaves of his heart.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.

A body must bear what can't be helped.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

Real love is a long apprenticeship.

Charity does not batter down the gates of a wall in the name of love or in the name of a unity that does not yet exist.

Go on. Go on", urged Billy in a soft voice. His eyes were large. He drew up his knees under the covers.

You and he make this union of trust together. Trust is not magic. Trust is built slowly, slowly, with patience and care.

You mean, how have we kept together all these years? With so much to separate us?" "Yes. How did you?" "Well, it wasn't always serene. But many questions do resolve themselves without words. You stand side by side for so long and have other things to fight than each other." Yes, she loved the man, her husband. But still did not know him. At least not with the knowledge of the laboratory. It was an inner kind of knowing maybe, an underdeveloped sense.

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

Bean mentions that the tree does not flower until 30 to 40 years of age. American references have stated 10 to 14 years. All authors, including this one, tend to pass along time-honored information without determining, first hand, the actual response in question.

Don't ask so many questions and they will all be answered.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks.