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...

The thing about waiting is that the longer you wait, the more impatient you become.

This is torture, torture, torture.Why is this so hard?? I survived whole days not talking to you before. What happened???I’m not as nice in the world today. I am scowly. I am trying to be...

Fino allora egli era avanzato per la spensierata età della prima giovinezza, una strada che da bambini sembra infinita, dove gli anni scorrono lenti e con passo lieve, così che nessuno nota la loro partenza....

The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn’t ring. Or the phone.

I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And...

Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.

I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

I believe in love, but I don’t sit around waiting for it. I buy houses.

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

People don’t like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them.

This year I guess I decided in the bigger matches to take it more to my opponent instead of waiting a bit more for the mistakes. Yeah, this is I guess how you want to...

…as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait...

Time passed at an accelerated pace. They could be sitting in traffic or talking on the phone or waiting in line for a movie, and their time felt precious, important, worthwhile.

I’ll be there in a minute.

Instead,she’s as stillas a leaf-littered pond,dark water evaporating,waiting desperately for rain.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a...

To forget would mean the things we never knewhad never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

You have that moment just before you go on – I’ve had it in every play – where you just kind of want to run away. There’s a whole audience, and they are waiting outside,...

You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things happen to me. They do. They have to go ahead...

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways —...

Next, PleaseAlways too eager for the future, wePick up bad habits of expectancy.Something is always approaching; every dayTill then we say,Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear,Sparkling armada of promises draw near.How slow they are!...

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

And oh, heaven – the crowded playhouse, the stench of perfume upon heated bodies, the silly laughter and the clatter, the party in the Royal box – the King himself present – the impatient crowd...

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Patience is power.Patience is not an absence of action;rather it is “timing”it waits on the right time to act,for the right principlesand in the right way.

For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured.At least by the person who’s waiting.

I hate couples sitting together for hours and waiting for each other to kiss.

But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life.” – Lena Gray

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can’t stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay – and it’s usually most wise to start today.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

I sat taller, to suppress my impatience. It was infuriating, this waiting. I was thirty-seven years old. And like a child, an infant, really, I was at the mercy of others. Hour after hour of...

As long as you are waiting for something to make you happy — happiness will never come.

Landing in the ocean and waiting for the Navy to come alongside and haul you out of the drink is what space capsules require. And after the capsule is recovered, it would take weeks for...

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Yes, I thinkwe’ll be waiting long.

If you were coming in the Fall, I’d brush the Summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As Housewives do a Fly. If I could see you in a year, I’d wind...

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.

Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

Not that complicated. I think I’m in love with you, Essie. But I also think you’re not ready. I shouldn’t have sprung it on you like that, so I decided to take it at your...

Waiting, he thought, was the most miserable condition a man could find himself in. His whole life, he had been waiting for one thing or another.