The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect.

Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a movie curled up with your lover and time ceases to exist. Spend two hours waiting for your lover to...

Applause, it’s very nice, of course. But when you’re giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.

When you’re sure of what you want, I’ll be right here.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only...

People who always arrive early aren’t worth waiting for.

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember...

Hope, love, and faith are in the waiting

Are you ready?” Klaus asked finally.”No,” Sunny answered.”Me neither,” Violet said, “but if we wait until we’re ready we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let’s go.

sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, sometime am so feeling lonely.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” For me, life is what was happening while I was busy waiting for my big moment. I was ready for it and believed that the...

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.

Please don’t waste-away in front of a TV waiting to win a lottery during the precious few hours you are not imprisoned in corporate shackles.

He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone...

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

We are still waiting for the president to introduce a concrete plan. He has just hinted at what he is thinking about doing, but no one has seen a proposal.

So, the combination of looking at lots of different people and how they react to each other and how they relate to each other and waiting for that inspiration is the thing that allows me...

Where do people…and why do people…have to wait, and what tends to happen when they do? So far, I have one observation to offer. It seems that waiting is a crucible. It tests us. It’s...

If ever you feel lost, terrified, alone, emotionally and physically drained…when you feel like depression has overpowered you, and that the world itself, has devoured you…just remember that you are not alone, you are loved,...

Knowing someone isn’t coming backdoesn’t mean you ever stop waiting

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?

Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead...

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I’m seeing all the food every day, and there’s lots of waiting around because making an American movie...

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died

Wait patiently for what you want.

I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they’ve been waiting or whether it’s...

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I’m going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to...

My first trip to Japan, in 1998, began with an enormous crowd of Japanese paparazzi and television crews, all waiting for me to clear customs in Tokyo (a first-time experience for this wine critic). Over...

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don’t do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

Sometimes the planning and the work is not the most difficult aspect of an endeavor; it’s the waiting—waiting to see if the preparation, the implementation, and the bait, will land a catch—waiting, that time in...

For six months I did what women do: I waited. This is what women are taught to be good at. It’s said that a woman’s life is merely preparation for the primal nine-month wait. Whatever...

I’m hungry for a juicy life. I lean out my window at night and I can taste it out there, just waiting for me.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

I don’t mind waiting rooms. I’m waiting on the love of my life, so I may as well have a seat, right?

I do know that waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts. Its easy...

I’ll give you my worst nightmare. I’m dreaming that I’m onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what’s going on. I think I should know, I kind...

If you are waiting to gain power to do something; then there is no difference between you and an unborn child.

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn’t reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole’s wolf tozin pumps through her veins,...

I’ve been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing...

Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.