Quotes About Patience

The Heath brothers stressed that, counterintuitively, big problems 'are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.' 'Shrink the change' became a kind of motto for me and my team, along with President Obama's version of the point: 'Better is good' (p. 517).

All bad nights come to an end.

But waiting is killing me. Don't they understand? Don't they remember what it feels like? I want to have things settled. I can't stand the idea of not knowing.

Bir dakika sonra ÅŸeftali olarak benden geriye hiçbir ÅŸey kalmam??t?. Oysa çekirdeÄŸim ne zaman ve nas?l yeÅŸermeye baÅŸlayaca??n? planl?yordu. Ben belirli zamanlarda ölüyor ve tekrar diriliyordum.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a way? I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows. I was a solid in the midst of other solids.

Better hope deferred than none.

Time is the only true purgatory.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Nothing is so cruel as to try and force a man beyond his natural pace.

Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is a long process of getting tired.

In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Possibly they would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored for so many hours a day by the Erewhonian inhabitants of the hospital, who are extremely impatient of one another's boredom, but would soon die if they had no one whom they might bore--in fact, that they would be kept as professional borees.

He told me that when he went away on vacation for a couple of weeks he could lose the feel of the dough. It took a day or two to get it back. "I usually measure how good I am by how quickly 'it' returns," he said.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I read part of it all the way through.