A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

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.

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me, but patience and persistence have paid off.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

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.

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Genius is eternal patience.

God gives me the children's ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. It's awesome. I don't know where He's gonna take it - but God is building this thing.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

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

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Humility is attentive patience.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

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

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I have no patience at all.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

I haven't got a lot of patience.

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

I wish I was a shredder that could play everything, but I don't have the patience.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

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'm terrible with patience.

I've always been a person with patience, and I don't like to force things.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

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.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

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.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

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.

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

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

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

Patience is passion tamed.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Patience is the best medicine.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is the secret to good food.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Patience was not my strong point.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.

Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

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.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The principle part of faith is patience.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

There's not a lot of room anymore for what I call 'made-up' drama. The drama comes from real places now - marriage takes work and focus, the kid stuff takes patience and commitment. And if you don't grow as people and as a couple, within all of that, then you've got some real drama.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these days.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

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.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

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.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

You know, I lose patience really easily I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I don't know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear.