Quotes About Patience

Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Mercy?" "Just a minute," I told Adam. "I'm in the middle of a revelation.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

had just apologized to me. Hell must have been experiencing some climate change.

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch." "It was I who caught her," Adam said softly. "It took years.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.

She was on the far side, leaving two cold feet of mattress between them. He knew that she'd fall asleep like that... and then gradually move over until she was plastered against him. Then he could go to sleep, too.

See you tomorrow," he said, instead. "All right." Then, impulsively, I asked, "Do you have a place to sleep tonight?" "Sure," he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don't know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

Jones is dead," I promised. "He just doesn't know it yet. But we are patient, we can wait until the time is ripe.

The wolf wanted to bed her and claim her as his own. Being of a more cautious nature than his wolf, he would wait until he knew her a little better before deciding to court her.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had told me often enough, since I sure had a talent for enraging them.

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

Are you asking for quarter? I'm not in a particularly merciful mood." I can make fun of my name, but no one else can. Unless I'm in a really good mood. Or if I start it first.

My French friend tells me that someday, if I work at it, I may no longer be flattering myself when I say I can speak a very little French.

It was discouraging how quickly the beginnings of a sweater turned into a loose pile of yarn.

Too early to tell," Gary said. "It doesn't look good, but saying 'it's over' before it actually is will make certain the outcome.