Quotes About Patience

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

The smartest man alive can't learn much about a woman in two weeks.

I pride myself on being able to put up with a lot," Nellie said. "But bagpipers are pretty much my limit.

He didn't understand why women had such a need to question. He himself preferred just to let life happen, and act when opportunity arose.

If you wait, all that happens is you get older.

Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at

Because the grave's our destination," Mr. Sedgwick said. "Those who hurry usually get to it quicker than those who take their time.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't.

If you want to be part of a human community you have to suffer fools—patiently, if not gladly—and you must practice civility as best you can.

If he didn't like the way she did things, he was free to do them different—but he never did them different. He just fussed at her.

Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business… Don't be trying to give back pain for pain.

We got all day to break horses.

It was a great annoyance to Billy that because of a long shit and a short nap he had lost his horse. But that was the truth of it and there was nothing he could do but limp along.

losing weight. When we finish eating this horse I

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Then why don't you marry him? Sally laughed. I don't want to jump into anything. 'Marry in haste, repent at leisure.' I can get married any time. Her trained objectivity made her add, Well, any time within the next five years. I'll be something of a spinster if I'm not married by then.

Nothing lasts. You can't do any one thing for two hundred years. A marriage, a career, a hobby—they're good for twenty years, and maybe you go through a phase more than once. I did some experimental medicine. I wrote a big chunk of that documentary on the Trinoc culture that won a—

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.)

Taking a lifetime to grow up.

The odd thing about understanding was how often time alone seemed seemed to bring it about.

He stood quite still, freezing, and somebody somewhere owed him infinite love.

We loved each other in the same difficult, unusable way where you took turns doing it, instead of ever managing to do it at the same time.

that real love comes over time, once that initial draw you're talking about takes on a different form. When you get to understand there is something more concrete between you. Something that is worth preserving...