"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes."
4
"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity."
3
"At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death."
3
"You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary."
3
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
3
"You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes."
4
"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."
3
"We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time."
3
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
3
"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."
3
"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."
3
"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
3
"It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form."
5
"Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance."
3
"Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations."
3
"People need patience. It takes time to build a brand."
4
"Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day."
3
"When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock."
4
"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."
4
"The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered."
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