I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I'm sick of all these knights in shining armor parts, I want to do something worthwhile like plays and films that have something to say.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

The earliest dated monument yet discovered in Tikal and all of the Maya lowlands, Stela 29, has a Long Count date of 8.12.14.13.15, which translates to A.D. 292.

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Patience has its limits, take it too far and it's cowardice.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Patience is the best medicine.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.