Quotes that you like

Desires slay patience. ~ Vidura (Mahabharatha)


If you have patience, then you'll also have love. Patience leads to love. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi


Patience leads to love. If you forcefully open the petals of a bud, you won't be able to enjoy its beauty and fragrance. Only when it blossoms by following its natural course, will the beauty and fragrance of a flower unfold. ~ Mata Amritanandamayi


Patience is all the strength that a person needs. ~ Sai Baba


Our patience will achieve more than our force. ~ Edmund Burke


Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. ~ Joyce Meyer


Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time." — Jon Kabat Zinn

 

"The other planets may not be able to support life, but it isn’t easy on this one either"

 

"The danger in the past was that men became slaves, the danger in the future is that men may become slaves to AI"

 

'Every nation gets the government it deserves.'

Joseph de Maistre

 

Beautiful that the hands of the sisters death and night
Incessantly softly remold, again and ever again
The face of this soiled world

 

"We choose to go to The Moon... not because it is easy, but because it is hard."

JFK

I quote this in conversation sometimes, when talking about difficult tasks.

 

“The world is made up of two kind of people, those who know how to make refrigerators work and those who don’t.”

- C P Snow

 

The former HF poster with the same name?

 

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is government bureaucracy


General Huge Johnson

 

"When people are awake they enjoy one world in common, but asleep, each roams a world of his own"

Heraclitus

 

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." Texas Guinan

 

“One extreme is to decide what you think and be impervious to new information. Another extreme is to over-privilege the last thing you learned.”

Infectious-disease epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch argues that we could all do with a little more Bayesian reasoning

 

I've always been a fan of this Latin phrase, "Ad astra per aspera" -- To the stars through difficulty

 

"A broken clock is still right twice a day" - ?

"Through perseverance comes victory" Napolean Bonaparte