Han Suyin Quotes

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

Don't get impatient when it takes too long.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.

We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept... And then you hurry. You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much to sweep as before, and you try even harder…, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop-and still the street stretches away in from of you.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

But dreams move on, if you wait too long.

We'll grow old waiting.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

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

A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience.

I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

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

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.