“I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.”
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“Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.”
“In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.”
“Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.”
“I have no patience at all.”
“Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
“And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.”
“Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.”
“My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.”
“Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.”
“Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.”
“Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?”
“I've said my patience is not infinite.”
“True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.”
“My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.”
“I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.”
“Patience is passion tamed.”
“I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.”
“I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.”
“My relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra brought me many times to London and I will always reflect positively on that early period of development with them - their patience, their warmth, their dedication.”
“Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.”
“Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.”
“Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.”