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Quotes About Patience

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
~ Johnny Ball
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
~ Dizzy Dean
Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse to open the window shutters, and complain that it is dark.
~ Adoniram Judson
There are guys you give the benefit of the doubt if they hold you up a little bit longer than normal, and you have that list of guys you kind of know are going to be a problem when you get there. The window of being patient with them is a lot shorter.
~ Tony Stewart
When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.
~ Donald Hall
I was in a daze in my childhood mostly - always looking out of the window, waiting for some life to happen that I wanted to live. Now I realise it is this, and that's what got me out of Gwalior.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
I had neck surgery and I'm not freaking stupid. I get that my window is smaller than it was and my bump card is ticking.
~ Tommaso Ciampa
All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.
~ William Bligh
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
~ Colin Powell
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
I think true love - love, wine and beauty, they better with age.
~ Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.
~ Jonathan Tucker
Sometimes, ideas are like good wine in that they just need time.
~ Satoru Iwata
Music is like wine, it ages beautifully - and if you spend enough time you can just sit there and listen to it entirely differently.
~ Jim Root
Wine gets better with time. So does art.
~ No I.D.
If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.
~ Charles Woodson
The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time.
~ Cecilia Bartoli
I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
~ Pat Paulsen
This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.
~ Itzhak Perlman
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
~ Coleman Young
They treat my stuff like wine. It just gets better with time.
~ Cam'ron
When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.
~ Richard N. Haass