Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shenstone

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

Samuel Johnson

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

William H. Gass

We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

William Golding

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

William Arthur Ward

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

William Feather

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

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.

William Makepeace Thackeray

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.

Whoopi Goldberg

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

Luc de Clapiers

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Joan Collins

I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

Lithuanian Proverb

Offer the lazy an egg, and they'll want you to peel it for them

Georg Lichtenberg

Some people read because they are too lazy to think.

Asia Argento

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

Smush Parker

There's nothing I can say about that. There was no pressure. I went up there lazy and didn't concentrate.

Douglas Coupland

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Amy Brenneman

I'm just really a lazy homebody.