Quotes About Patience

One thing at a time, is my motto—and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only two pair and a jack.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

One of his favorite jokes was about a guy who was smuggling wheelbarrows. Every day for years and years a customs agent carefully searched through this guy's wheelbarrow. Finally, when he was about to retire, the customs agent asked the guy, We've become friends. I've searched your wheelbarrow every day for many years. What is it you're muggling? My friend, I am smuggling wheelbarrows.

I need to get in line,' I said. 'Should I walk up with you?' 'No,' I said, 'because we'll start this routine all over.' 'What if I want to?' 'I'd like that,' I said. 'But don't.

There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.

You have to let the water run awhile and even though it remains icy, part of you still refuses to believe it won´t change, especially if you wait a little longer or open up the valve a little more. So you wait but no matter how many minutes run by, you still see no steam, you still feel no heat.

Let the cold water run. It's gotta warm up eventually. Right?

Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

Time will tell, I suppose, or at least, these pages will.

When you wait you start feeling deserved.

You don't shoot a dog when it is already dead.

Just do me a favor and remember one thing,' he says, and I can see he's trying not to be too typically religious. 'Have faith, Ed, all right?' I search the coffee mug, but there's none in there.

Los minutos eran crueles. Las horas mortificantes. Durante los momentos de desvelo, sobre él pendía inexorablemente la mano del tiempo, la cual no dudaba en estrujarlo. Le sonreía, lo retorcía y lo dejaba vivir. Qué gran maldad puede encubrir la prolongación de una vida.

I'd wanted to stay on that porch with him until the sun shone bright on both of us, but I didn't. I stood up and walked down the steps. I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait.