"Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience."

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Source : Grace King, E. Catherine Falvey (1994). “Balcony Stories”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield

Grace King

#Patience Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.”
“Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.”
“Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.”
“There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.”
“No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.”
“Someone tells us that God loves us as a father loves his children. We are reassured. But then something awful happens. Some qualification is made.... We are reassured again. But then perhaps we ask: what is this assurance of God's (appropriately qualified) love worth, what is this apparent guarantee really a guarantee against? Just what would have to happen not merely (morally and wrongly) to tempt but also (logically and rightly) to entitle us to say "God does not love us" or even "God does not exist"?”
“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
“The character of a people may be ruined by charity.”

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