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Quotes About Patience

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.
~ Alex Flinn
Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.
~ Alexander Lebed
Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
Time stoops to no man's lure.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
~ Alice Mattison
Speculation can be more gentle, can take its time, when it is not driven by desire.
~ Alice Munro
The things most worth wanting are not available everywhere all the time.
~ Alice Waters
No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting.
~ Alicia Keys
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
~ Allen Klein
Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
~ Ally Carter
I looked for a very long time, knowing that it had to happen, but it took me a long time to find someone with the same background and whatnot and I finally found him
~ Alton Brown
All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.
~ Amelie Mauresmo
Murder isn't a crime when you just killing time.
~ Amir Mohamed
If you take a little time, let's say three weeks off, after recording a song, and you listen to it every other day, you're just going to know eventually.
~ Andrew Bird
I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.
~ Andrew Ripp
I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.
~ Andriy Shevchenko
Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.
~ Andy Murray
You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.
~ Andy Rooney
I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career.
~ Ann Dowd
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
~ Ann Patchett
God gives us time. And who has time for God?
~ Ann Voskamp
A farm is like a very large and extended baby. It takes a great deal of time and very little mentality.
~ Anne Bosworth Greene
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
~ Anne Carson
Can you write a book and have children at the same time? Yes, if you're content to do it very very slowly.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh