Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Robert M. Pirsig

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Robert Falcon Scott

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

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.

Wil Wheaton

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.

Saint Francis de Sales

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

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.

Voltaire

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Tony Snow

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace with any other religion.

Samuel Johnson

Patience and submission are very carefully to be distinguished from cowardice and indolence. We are not to repine, but we may lawfully struggle; for the calamities of life, like the necessities of Nature, are calls to labor and diligence.

Rowan Atkinson

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

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?

Yehuda Berg

If you are seeking the right path, you are already on the right path.

Guus Hiddink

Robert is on his way, but we need more time and patience,

Pat was a real hero, not what they used him as.

patterns or something in it to try to resolve this issue.

Pat started slow because he wasn't able to get back into wrestling shape when he was out with the shoulder injury. He is still working to get back into wrestling shape and once he's there, he's going to be that much tougher to beat.

Ted Haggard

Pat Robertson was wrong in recommending this. He was wrong in saying it.

Patients who are receiving therapies, come here for hope, are not going to be able to receive that because of this issue.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength

Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Bill Cowher

Patience is a virtue. If you have the right people.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

If you're struggling or young, you couldn't have a better guy. Because he has unbelievable patience and perseverance.