Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

William Golding

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

William Prescott

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.

Wilkie Collins

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Tony Dang

I just say thanks for their patience. But I'm going to rebuild Eden.

Henry Rollins

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

Mahatma Gandhi

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

John Ciardi

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

English Proverb

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

Two Chainz

If you a chicken head, go somewhere and lay some eggs

Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Murray Rothbard

Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

Margaret Thatcher

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.

Joel Salatin

I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.

John Major

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

George M. Humphrey

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.

Charles Spurgeon

The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Vladimir Nabokov

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena — all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

Xavier Becerra

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

Wynonna Judd

I literally went from the outhouse to the White House.

Lewis Wolff

I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,

Nate Berkus

They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'

Jonathan Raban

It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.