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Your Quotes for 18 February 2006 - Patience

I'm back from my trip to the frozen environs of Billings, Montana where it briefly got above freezing only once in four days and was heading back to ten below as we waited to leave. (-10 F = -23 C) By the time the security screeners left for the day, our plane hadn't even left the ground on its way to pick us up. It would have been worse if the lady running the snack bar hadn't volunteered to stay open until our flight left. I would have been really unhappy if it had been enough later that we missed the last ferry back to the island! And now that I've been home for a couple of hours, it's taking additional patience to wait for the heat to bring the house back to a comfortable temperature!

A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
     - Adlai Ewing Stevenson, 1900 - 1965

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; because of impatience we cannot return.
     - Franz Kafka, 1883 - 1924

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
     - Hyman G. Rickover, 1900 - 1986

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
     - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533 - 1592

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
     - Augustine of Hippo, 354 - 430

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
     - Laurence J. Peter, 1919 - 1990

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