Patiens Quotes & Sayings

The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice. — Reinhold Schneider

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. — Thomas Sowell

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke.
[Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] — Ovid

The nonnegotiable ethos of a confession may actually force a slacker generation to return to Scripture and steer through some difficult issues. Such may actually help us mature. — Anonymous

There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience. — J.R.R. Tolkien

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil. Before the settlers, before the Indians ... the evil was there ... waiting. — William S. Burroughs

The saying that money doesn't buy you happiness is true. But it sure as fuck helps. — Chelsea Handler

If you can't smile and have fun, you're in trouble. So if somebody in the stands says hello, I'm going to say hello back. Why shouldn't I? I know what I'm doing in this game. I'm still going to be ready to hit when I step in the box. — Carlos Delgado