quotes about waiting patiently

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. ~Elbert Hubbard



The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination. ~Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist



It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. ~Helen Keller



Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda



Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles. ~Paul A. Samuelson



It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U.S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the Senate. ~George McGovern



Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo



All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"



Tony Soprano: "Why don't you get the fuck out of here before I shove your quotation book up your fat fucking ass."



All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it. ~John Berger



A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~George Moore



If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. ~Lemony Snicket



I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother Teresa



I am not against golf, since I cannot but suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering trout... ~Paul O'Neil



Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks



Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. ~Mike Harding, The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981



The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. ~Catherine Hall



You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind? ~Freeman Dyson, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey



You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. ~The Simpsons by Matt Groening, spoken by the character Homer Simpson