Quotes About Patience

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.

They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.

Talk away. If you bore us, we have books." With this invitation Rickie began to relate his history. The reader who has no book will be obliged to listen to it.

He didn't care for Clive [anymore], but he could suffer from him.

You care for me a little bit, I do think, but I can't hang all my life on a little bit.

The hedge was a half-painted picture which would be finished in a few days.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing.

China puts her hand on my palm. Her fingernails are baby blue with miniature clouds airbrushed at the tips. She saved three weeks of allowance for that sky.

Success followed as it will, when one longs to fail. --Bunny

The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.