Quotes About Patience

I don't think you get to be mad at someone unless they come through for you. I don't think you have that luxury. I think you think you can be mad, but really you're just doing something else. What's that? Waiting.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know until it is happening.

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

It seemed to me that the universe was tricky that way--as soon as you didn't need something as badly, as soon as you hold onto the hope of it less tightly, you get a second shot at it.

You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you. [Hannah Hall]

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.

How do you explain it when you find in someone what you've been waiting for

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. —Albert Einstein

If you're not careful, you run out of time.

Sometimes you don't know it. What you have been waiting your whole life for. You don't know it until it is happening.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. —Oscar Wilde

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falling apart, and maybe coming together in a greater way than I could have hoped for. You couldn't always work so hard to fix it. Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to -Georgia

Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.

She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.

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

Hay muchas maneras de poner a secar una caja de cerillos húmeda, pero puede estar segura de que tiene remedio

The time it took to prepare didn't matter, because there is no such thing as wasted time in the kitchen--rather that is where we go to recover lost time.

What's your rush? the key's scent said. The stone of the street said. The bright young sun said, seeking its way into the color-washed walls through cracks and crannies and shirts hung out like flags between balconies to dry. I've got all day. You've got all week. We've got a half-dozen centuries.

For a man who claimed he didn't have much patience, he'd given her oceans of it. He

Ma sighed gently and said, A whole year gone, Charles. But Pa answered, cheerfully: What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.