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Quotes About Patience

I'd had enough surprises in the last few months to know that you don't always find the answers you're looking for without finding about fifty unwanted ones first.
~ Liz Kessler
If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard, Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said, We aren't really expected to.
~ Lloyd Alexander
A lady doesn't insist on having her own way. Then, next thing you know, it all works out somehow, without one's even trying. I thought I'd never learn, though it's really quite easy once you get the knack.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Don't pout that way, my child, you'll give yourself a blister.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.
~ Lloyd Alexander
But that's not true," Taran called. "I—I was …" By then, Eilonwy was out of earshot. Crestfallen, Taran followed her. "I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard. "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said. "We aren't really expected to.
~ Lloyd Alexander
I commend your patience," he said. "The black beast spurs Ellidyr cruelly." "I think he'll feel better once we find the cauldron," Taran said. "There will be glory enough for all to share." Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
~ Lois Lowry
It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.
~ Lois Lowry
She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.
~ Lois Lowry
Kira, your leg will take a great deal out of me. I'll have to sleep, after, maybe for a whole day or even longer. And I don't have much time. She looked at him quizzically. Time for what? I'll explain. But for now, I think we should start. If I do it right away, I can sleep completely through the night and almost all of the morning. You can use that time to become accustomed to being whole... I [i]am[/i] whole, she said defiantly.
~ Lois Lowry
como si dijera: «Ya casi hemos terminado», y ciertamente los chorritos de leche salieron más finos y lentos. Dio un apretón final
~ Lois Lowry
Don't keep interrupting or I'll never finish the story.
~ Lois Lowry
This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Take heart, sir, Cazaril consoled him. It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
He who plots revenge must dig two graves.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Roic said nothing, firmly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived
~ Lois McMaster Bujold