Quotes About Patience

She looked like a woman who had spent her whole life waiting in line.

Slow" works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

she'd come to believe life was like that: you could enjoy almost anything if you gave it enough time.

Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could find if you cared to look, and once you found this rhythm it'd get you through a morning. Rhythm was what Sully had counted on over the long years - that and the wisdom to understand that no job, no matter how thankless or stupid or backbreaking, could not be gotten through. The clock moved if you let it.

I must be losing patience with my fellow humans," Miss Beryl went on. "Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon.

No, you wish. You have to be careful of wishing. It can hurt. It's better to wait until you know. Waiting for your father to turn up won't make him do it.

His mother's position was that his father could come back and live with them again as soon as he grew up, but not until. His father had predicted that his mother would kiss his ass before he'd ever walk through that door again. Both of these, Lin had concluded, were highly unlikely events.

It was Miss Beryl's view that anything involving crowds of jostling bargain seekers wouldn't be a bargain.

you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?

You are old, Father William—

Albert Einstein once said, "Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour—that's relativity.

One can account for just so much of life, and then no more. At least, not yet. With

I thought you'd snap out of it. I thought, with a little time, you'd lighten up and see how it didn't matter!

Sara would listen for his plane in the afternoons. It did not make sense, but she could hear it even before the dogs could.

It is a gradual kind of strengthening. It takes a long time to see how the losses build you up, rather than strip you down and wear you away.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, Can I have your apple?

Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

Very well! It shall be as you say. But my son, pray this works. I am praying. I'm talking to you, right? Oh...yes. Good point. Amphitrite - incoming!

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

Not all powers are spectacular. Hestia looked at me. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. "Keep it simple.

Want to hit Leo? That is understandable Hunk muffin earned it

I won't go looking for trouble. I usually don't have too.