Quotes About Patience

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Arthur Gremlin was doing a lot of smiling these days. He had seemed pretty tense when he first joined the firm, but the more time he spent with me, and the more he saw me in action, the more he relaxed. Finally after watching me spend three entire days trying to get a carton of milk open, he wiped the milk off his face and relaxed completely for the first time. It's like something that had been nagging at him finally went away.

Contracting the construction of a papal masoleum was nothing like being alone with his dreams and drawings, chisel and stone. Instead of working, he was writing letters, meeting contacts, arranging payments, obtaining permissions. It was a question of time.

It's like a malicious person lifting a photograph from the developing chemicals too early, and then pronouncing the photographer incompetent.

Waiting your turn is often the worst way to get what you want.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

A favorite freebie was the heat-sensitive Oxy-Contin mug that bore the words: "The one to start with . . . ." When filled with hot coffee, the rest of the slogan materialized: "The one to stay with.

Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those numbers on which important calculations or inferences depend. They have no idea of the patience shown by a Berzelius in determining atomic weights; by a Regnault in determining coefficients of expansion; or by a Joule in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat.

One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore... and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

He laughs best who laughs last.

?Chris can sometimes rush into action when it might be smarter to sit back and bark at it for a while.

The 20-year rule says that if it won't matter in 20 years, it doesn't matter now.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

Ya about the same time you grow a third set of teeth.

Don't hit your posset with a stick mister, it tends to make you cough.

Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.

We endure the strokes like anvils or hard steel, Till pain itself make us no pain to feel.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

His mother regarded her life patiently, as if it were a long moment that she had to endure.

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