3 December 2020 Jim Bishop When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?
3 December 2020 Lincoln Diaz-Balart I haven’t been given many things, but I’ve been given ample, limitless patience.
3 December 2020 Peter Stuyvesant Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.
3 December 2020 Bernard de Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
3 December 2020 John Updike A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.
3 December 2020 Leon Jouhaux True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.
3 December 2020 Joshua Slocum Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one’s patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
3 December 2020 Andrew Greeley Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
3 December 2020 Herman Hesse Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
3 December 2020 Ilie Nastase If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
3 December 2020 Pauline Kael It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art.
3 December 2020 James J. Corbett Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
3 December 2020 Melissa Rosenberg Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it’s our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it’s a challenge – but if you’re not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You’re just taking up space.
