Quotes About Patience

I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.

No, no me molesta que me lo preguntes —repuso el anciano—. Siempre que a ti no te moleste que no te conteste.

Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten.

Nunca estás donde te busco, y apareces cuando menos lo espero. Como el arco iris.

I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late...' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.

It exhasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to her desire.

As with many things, hesitation is better than hurry.

Era un sonido paciente e impasible como el de las flores cartadas; el silencio de un hombre que espera la muerte.

But this was not a time for begging favors from the moon. Not now. She could not rush and neither could she be delayed. Some things were simply too important.

El dicho de que «el tiempo todo lo cura» es falso. El tiempo cura la mayoría de las heridas. El resto están escondidas detrás de esa puerta.

He drew a slow, deliberate breath before speaking. "Quiet is not stupid," he said, his voice flat. "You? Always talk. Chek chek chek chek chek." He made a motion with one hand, like a mouth opening and closing. "Always. Like dog all night barking at tree. Try to be big. No. Just noise. Just dog.

When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour. By now, a year and a half had passed and folk were almost mad with curiosity.

This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Para parecer inteligente tienes que saber cerrar la boca cuando conviene.

The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, holding the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Time is the great healer,

A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness.

Because you are too eager to be properly patient," he said flippantly. "You're too proud to listen properly. And you're too clever by half. That's the worst of it.

Off to one side his fine white teacup waited for him with a patience Aria envied

Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

I have not forgotten that she is what I am moving toward. If I seem to be caught in a slow circling of the subject, it is only appropriate, as she and I have always moved toward each other in slow circles.

it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn's ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Durante medio minuto lamentó que no fuera otra clase de día, a pesar de saber que deseando cosas no se conseguía nada. A pesar de saber que no estaba bien hacerlo.