Quotes About Patience

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope

Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.

Can you speed this up? I want to get to bed. A slight frown appeared between his eyes. Anita, you are not making this easy. Hurrah, I said. The frown smoothed out as he sighed. You would think I would give up on you ever being easy. Yes, I said, you would. Anita and Jean-Claude

Quit drawing out the story

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It is a rule.

Perché sei arrabbiata?» Chinai la testa perché aveva ragione. «Non chiederlo, okay? Lascia che il malumore mi passi e proverò anch'io a lasciare che passi.»

Screaming was for when you didn't have anything better to do.

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

sometimes things need to hurt some now, so they don't hurt a lot more later.

If Amy had been around for the creation of the world, Jane had no doubt that she would have chivvied the Lord into creating the earth in two days rather than seven.

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

If you'd like to sit here and fume about Dempster or whatever else it is that's eating at you, I said, warming to my theme, feel free to go right ahead. I'll just head off home and spend the evening watching the snooker championships. It's not snooker season, actually, offered Colin, in a conciliatory way. Fine. Darts, then. Envisioning them thrown at my head? he asked ruefully. Despite myself, I smiled back. We were getting there.

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? Pray, what was your father saying?—Nothing.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it

Marriage, it turned out, was a series of small events.

The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don't offer up anything. Don't explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don't accidentally put your head in a noose.

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We're all afraid to talk about what stares at us from the dark.