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 Faulkner

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

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.

Mike Pereira

What we want to do is to pick up the paper Monday and read about the game, not the officiating. We all want to be anonymous.

Herb Rudoy

Hopefully, we can get (Person) in over the weekend and get (a signing) done Monday or Tuesday.

Yani Tseng

Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

Oliver Sacks

My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

Marcia Hellman

It's picking up every day. Monday -- after we win -- you won't be able to get in the door.

Tom Greene

It will be rockin' in here Monday night, I know that.

Randall Godfrey

It's a pleasure to play on Monday night. You got the whole world watching.

Nelson Algren

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Newt Gingrich

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

Woody Harrelson

I've been vegan for about 10 and a half years. It's been all good. I'm obviously much healthier

Will Rogers

I know worrying works, because none of the stuff I worried about ever happened.

Terry Pratchett

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

John Kenneth Galbraith

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Savannah Guthrie

I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'

Pamela Anderson

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

Maria Shriver

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Alan Perlis

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

Betty White

Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.