Quotes About Patience

Before people crow about the absence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, I suggest they wait a bit.

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.

You want to hope for something better than what you have right now, don't you? Otherwise you wouldn't be hoping. But then, you forget that you have it all right now anyway, and you don't know it. Why not concentrate on the now instead of hoping for better times in the future? Why not understand the now instead of forgetting it and hoping for the future? Isn't the future just another trap?

If there is anything I can do about the future, right now, I shall do it. Then I'm going to just leave it alone and settle down to enjoy the present moment, because all the experience of my life has shown me that I can only cope with things when they are present, not before they occur. And that the present always gives me the resources and the energy I need to deal with them.

Si hay algo que pueda hacer ahora con respecto a mi futuro, lo haré. Fuera de eso, me limitaré a dejarle que siga su curso y me dedicaré a disfrutar del momento presente, porque la experiencia me ha enseñado que sólo puedo hacer frente a las cosas cuando éstas se presentan, no antes de que ocurran, y que el presente me proporciona siempre los recursos y la energía necesarios para afrontarlas».

Do you know what happens, Etienne," says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, "when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?" "You will tell us, I am sure." "It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?" Marie-Laure waits. The potatoes steam. Madame Manec says, "The frog cooks.

A shell screams over the house. He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.

Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor--it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right.

He thinks: I only want to sit here with her for a thousand hours.

Don´t you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don´t you ever want proof? Madame Manec rests a hand on Marie-Laure's forehead. The thick hand that first reminded her of a gardener's or a geologist's. You must never stop believing. That's the most important thing.

The despair doesn't last. Marie-Laure is too young and her father is too patient.

Sometimes," he says, "when I feel like working, I just sit and wait for the feeling to pass

You know how diamonds—how all crystals—grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too.

The bookseller said it's in two parts, and this is the first. I thought that next year, if we keep saving, we can get the second—

Imogene has twenty-two birdfeeders, some pole-mounted, some suspended from eaves, platform feeders and globe feeders, coffee can feeders and feeders that look like little Swiss chalets, and every evening, when she comes home from work, she drags a stepladder from one to the next, toting a bucket of mixed seeds, keeping them full. In

The future waited for him to keep his appointment.

Waiting is a kind of war. You simply tell yourself that you must not lose.

Werner lunges for Volkheimer's rifle. All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?

too. Who knows when the water will go out again. Her fingers travel back to the cathedral

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip.

There is magic in this world...You just have to sit and breathe and wait and it will find you.