Quotes About Patience

Church again. My prayer is now only, 'Here I am again. Show me what to do; help me do it.

You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

My own rule is to let everything alone.

I can never judge a man while he's talking

Astenersi dal giudicare implica un'infinita speranza.

the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody

The thing to do is to forget about the heat,' said Tom impatiently. 'You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.

The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

When I meet a man that doesn't bore me to death after two weeks, perhaps it'll be different.

I wanted to be a regular human being but the girl couldn't see it that way.' 'You'll find another.' 'God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you? No, sir, the girl really worth having wont' wait for anybody. If I thought there'd be another I'd lose my remaining faith in human nature.

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they're supposed to be with.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Quando sentirai il telefono che non suona, sarò io che non chiamo.

Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.

All he was doing was just sitting around killing time, looking at the birds and waiting to die.