Quotes About Patience

How long is this to last? asked the inspector finally. And what is it we are watching for? I have no more notion than you how long it is to last, Holmes answered with some asperity. If criminals would always schedule their movements like railway trains, it would certainly be more convenient for all of us.

above all, do not fret until you know that you really have a cause for it.

Well, what are we to do now? asked MacDonald with some gruffness. Possess our souls in patience and make as little noise as possible, Holmes answered.

You then went to the vicarage, waited outside it for some time, and finally returned to your cottage." "How do you know that?" "I followed you." "I saw no one." "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

I am inclined to think said I. I should do so, Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but Ill admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. Really, Holmes, said I severely, you are a little trying at times.

it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

Algunas veces las cosas tienen que ir mal para terminar bien.

What happened to you? Nick Remember what I told you about holding your temper, Malachai? Aeron Yeah? Nick Hold your temper. Aeron

Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory.

Be cool, my fevered brain. And it wouldn't hurt you, body, to take a tumble in the snow.

When you love something enough time races ahead like the wind chasing autumn leaves, sending them skipping and dancing out of reach, no matter how fast you run. But when you want something and must wait to get it, time stops

I'm sorry we're late, but somebody decided to step in a fresh horse plop and needed a bath." He turned a mock-solemn glare at the smaller child. Crystal Ingrid looked away in the manner of a four-year-old who thinks that if she doesn't see trouble, it's not there.

I promised myself that next time Shevraeth tried to talk to me, I'd listen, and even if he insulted me, my family, and my land, I'd keep my tongue between my teeth.

Things happen when they happen, not when you're ready for them.

A Wood in Sound The pine tree sways in the smoke, Which streams up and up. There's a wood in sound. My legs lose themselves Where the river mirrors daffodils Like faces in a dream. A cold wind and the white memory Of a sasanqua. Warm rain comes and goes. I'll wait calmly on the bank Till the water clears And willows start to bud. Time is singed on the debris Of air raids. Somehow, here and now, I am another.

Don't hope...Believe, because when God is in it, everything works out just the way it should.

I wonder now what it was like living for four years, not wanting to, only waiting for your hold to weaken so you could finish up and leave.

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Slack your rope, Hangsaman, O slack it for a while, I think I see my true love coming, Coming many a mile

am pleased that you are repentant, but you have taken far too much of my time.

we eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow an then we eat it.

In delay, there lies no plenty