“We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.”

— Sarah Strohmeyer

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American writer 1950

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“5499. What is the Use of Patience, if we cannot find it when we want it?”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1747) : What signifies your Patience, if you can't find it when you want it.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.”

Michael Parenti (1933) American academic

1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Rollback, p. 46
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Context: Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

“Men can frighten us, other women can frighten us, and sometimes we worry so much about what frightens us that we wait to have an orgasm until we are alone. We pretend to want things we don’t want so nobody can see us not getting what we need.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On women being told to control their own impulses in “Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/lisa-taddeo-interview-three-women in The Guardian (2019 Dec 6)