Robert Penn Warren Quotes

Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don't have. Therefore, with every kind of waiting we produce an inner conflict between now and the projected future. This greatly reduces the quality of our life. Are you a 'habitual waiter'?

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

A watched supper dish never fills!

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

Sometimes great stuff comes quickly and sometimes it doesn't and you've got to dig in for the long haul, don't loose heart, and wait for something to come along. Which is something you learn the more you do it, that if it isn't coming straight away just hang in there and something will come.

You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.