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patience blow tyrants
Charles Spurgeon Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
patience stupid ignorance
Edith Sitwell I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
patience thinking skills
David Duchovny I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.
patience waiting
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.
patience dog mad
William Shakespeare Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
patience littles thieves
William Shakespeare A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.
patience thinking years
Aaron Spelling A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
patience smart evil
Charlotte Bronte It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.
smart intelligent average
Charles Stross Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
smart matter singularity
Charles Stross Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
smart people scare
Chris Carter It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
smart giving people
Chris Christie I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.
smart thinking president
Chris Christie I think what you expect of every candidate and ultimately of a president is to listen to the facts and to deal with things in a way that's smart and direct. I'm confident that's exactly what President [Donald] Trump will do.
smart book humble
David Duchovny If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
smart men thinking
David Brin If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..
smart successful self
David Brin Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.
smart character mean
Benedict Cumberbatch If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.
evil lazy would-be
Charles Dickens The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
evil statesmen statesmanship
Charles Caleb Colton It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.
evil choices goods
Charles Caleb Colton Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Charles Caleb Colton Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
Charles Caleb Colton No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Charles Caleb Colton Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Charles Dickens Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
evil hatred debt
Charles Dickens It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
Charles Simmons It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.