Quotes About Patience

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

Mais on ne peut pas forcer les gens à écouter. Il faut qu'ils changent d'avis à leur heure, quand ils se demanderont ce qui s'est passé et pourquoi le monde a explosé sous leurs pieds. Ça ne peut pas durer éternellement.

That's life for you," said McDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.

The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching. The lawn cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.

Te naerate, kuigi ma pole öelnud midagi naljakat, ja te vastate liiga ruttu. Te ei võta kunagi vaevaks mõelda selle üle, mida ma teie käest küsin.»

This was all he wanted now. Some sign that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.

La diferencia entre el hombre que se limita a cortar el césped y un autentico jardinero esta en el tacto. El cortador de césped igual podría no haber estado allí, el jardinero estará allí para siempre.

Se non ci ascolteranno, dovremo aspettare ancora. Insegneremo i libri ai nostri figli, oralmente, e i figli a loro volta li passeranno ad altri. In questo modo molto sarà perduto, è chiaro. Ma non si può costringere la gente ad ascoltare: devono arrivarci da soli, quando è il momento, e allora domandarsi cosa è successo e perché il mondo è scoppiato sotto i loro piedi. Perché così non può durare.

Patience, Montag. Let the war turn off the "families". Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time

For fifty years I've watched the grandfather clock in the hall, William. After it is wound I can predict to the hour when it will stop. Old people are no different. They can feel the machinery slow down and the last weights shift.

Çimenleri biçen adam orada hiç olmam?? gibidir; bahç?vansa bir ömür boyu orada olacak.

you cannot love someone unless you put up with him

That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun...In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .

There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale, had filled him with such an exalted conviction of his merits that it was extremely difficult for the world to treat him with justice— the standard of that notion depending so much upon the patience of the individual. The Professor had genius, but lacked the great social virtue of resignation.

No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and as to superstition, beliefs, and what you may call principles, they are less than chaff in a breeze.

In the tropics one must before everything keep calm.' . . .

No fear could match the hunger, no patience can exhaust it, repulsion just doesn't exist where there is hunger.

No hay miedo que pueda hacer frente al hambre, no hay paciencia que pueda hacerlo desaparecer, la repugnancia simplemente no existe donde existe el hambre; y en cuanto a la superstición, y lo que podríamos llamar principios, tiene menos peso que la hojarasca de viento.

No hay miedo que pueda hacer frente al hambre, no hay paciencia que la soporte, el asco simplemente no existe donde el hambre es; y en cuanto a las supersticiones, creencias, todo eso que ustedes llamarían principios, son menos que paja enfrentada a la brisa.