Arundhati Roy Quotes

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

I can think. I can wait. I can fast.

I think a lot, but I don't say much.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

The disciplined are free.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I will count to 10 before tweeting.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

I have not yet learned to keep still.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Patience is passion tamed.

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.