Quotes About Patience

Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.

Just once, Pen thought glumly, he'd like to get an answer to prayers, instead of being delivered as one.

Yes, of course. Tomorrow . . . or you can call me whenever you're ready. You have my number?" "Yes, you gave me several of them back on Komarr. I still have them.

Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.

He smiled, recapturing her hand. "A very wise woman once told me—you just go on. I've never encountered any good advice that didn't boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father's." I want to be with you always, so you can make me laugh myself well.

I'm not in a hurry," the woman said. Patience for her vengeance dripped like vitriol from her voice; even Tich was quelled.

Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!

Prayer, he suspected... was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

What did it say that Nikys had better luck getting a straight answer from a chaos demon than a man? Nothing new, more's the pity.

Ah." "And what does ah mean?" he asked, slightly exasperated. "It's sort of like biting my tongue, but less painful.

Patience and exhaustion turn out to have a lot in common.

May I come in? His smile softened. The choice is yours, my Ista. As you do not deny Me, I will not deny you. Yet I would still await you, if you chose the long way home. I might become lost upon the road. She looked away.

My mama used to say to me, What, you don't have time to do it right, but you do have time to do it over?

If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.

Miles. I have to talk to you." "Just a minute." The minute became two or three or four, as he leaned against the doorframe and scuffed his boot on the patterned carpet. He knocked again. "C'mon, Simon, let me in." "Don't be so impatient, Miles," his aunt's voice admonished him firmly. "It's a bit rude." He

I'm sorry, Lady Vorkosigan. We'll simply have to begin at the beginning. Please bear with me. Do I understand correctly you've had some sort of female trouble?" No, most of my troubles have been with males. Cordelia bit her tongue.

He'd never been serious about twelve; he'd just figured to start with that proposition, and fall back to six. His mother, his aunt, and what seemed every other female of his acquaintance had all mobilized to explain to him that he was insane, but Ekaterin had merely smiled.

She would do her marriage then, hour by hour and day by day with the work of her hands, and let the wishing fall where it would.

Yet if all things end, even despair must, too. Not in my lifetime. But sometime.

Waiting (a tough thing to do), focusing on other things, and trusting the Lord will take care of future hopes is much safer than looking at a new person to take the pain away.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength," he said softly. "They shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." In that moment Libby's wish during class became a prayer.

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Finding love isn't about finding someone at the right time. It's about finding the right person, regardless of the time.

Simone plays with her jack-in-the-box—an annoying toy that plays "Pop Goes the Weasel" until you'd like to pop the thing with a hammer.