Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months.
I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.
I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.
The patient is in intensive care but still alive.
A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder.
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
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Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, ...
In fiction, I searched for my favorite authors, women I have trusted to reassure me than not all teenage guys are total ditwads, that the archetype of the noble cute hero who devotes himself to the girl he loves has not gone the way of the rotary pho...
You poor, patient man, you think you have time? The best thing you can do for yourself is to stop waiting for something and refuse to be patient! Waiting is nonsense! Patience is rubbish! Get rid of these cultural and religious baloneys, throw away t...
