Quotes About Patience

Without the least sense of rush or strain you've been working as fast as one of those extraordinary calculating boys, who turn up from time to time.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fulfillment?

There's always soma to give you a holiday form the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training.

Has any of you been compelled to live through a long time-interval between the consciousness of a desire and its fufilment?

Tras aquellas semanas de ocio en Londres, durante las cuales, cuando deseaba algo le bastaba pulsar un botón o girar una manija, fue para él una delicia hacer algo que exigía habilidad y paciencia.

four-seater sporticopter. They'd be late for dinner if he didn't come soon. "We'll give him five more minutes," said Helmholtz. "If he doesn't turn up by then we'll…" The ringing of the telephone bell interrupted him. He picked up the receiver. "Hullo. Speaking." Then, after a long interval of listening

Abban volt bölcs, hogy tudott hallgatni. A hallgatás úgy zárja magába a bölcsesség és szellemesség ígéretét, mint márványtömb a remekbe faragott szobrot. Aki hallgat, nem tanúskodik önmaga ellen.

I neither suffer myself, nor other fools, gladly.

Toda la sabiduría humana se encierra en estas dos palabras: confiar y esperar.

Las respuestas que se esperan con impaciencia siempre llegan cuando uno no está en casa.

Confiar y esperar

Vivid, pues, y sed dichosos, hijos queridos de mi corazón, y no olvidéis nunca que hasta el día en que Dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda la sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: ¡Confiar y esperar!

Querer no es esperar lo que no te van a dar.

Bien hacen en despreciarnos, que aún no somos nada —decía Martínez de Ballesteros encogiéndose de hombros—. Pero ya nos llegará la hora.»

The anxious wait lasted four years, and the alert ears never despaired of hearing, at any moment, the voice of the great conch shell which would bellow through the hills to announce to all that Macandal had completed the cycle of his metamorphoses, and stood poised once more, sinewy and hard, with testicles like rocks, on his own human legs (36-37).

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

Remember, that on the contrary a donkey is not only an intelligent animal, but also an obedient, polite and hard-working one. But if it's overloaded beyond its capacity or expected to be a race horse, it will stop and say, "I cannot do this. Do whatever you want." And you can beat it all you want – it won't move.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo cosa mai stiamo aspettando. Silenzio. Che sia troppo tardi, madame.

Kartais svarstau, ko mes vis laukiame. Tyla. - Kad b?t? per v?lu, madam.

Di cosa siamo capaci, pensò. Crescere, amare, fare figli, invecchiare - e tutto questo mentre anche siamo altrove, nel tempo lungo di una risposta non arrivata, o di un gesto non finito. Quanti sentieri, e a che passo differente risaliamo, in quello che se sembra un unico viaggio.

Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.

Écrire à quelqu'un est la seule manière de l'attendre sans se faire de mal.

Signore Buon Dio abbiate pazienza son di nuovo io.