“I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.”
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
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“The people are patient, but the stomach cannot wait too long.”
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)

Quami Awaz, Urdu Daily,in: p. 347.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)

“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”

Source: Take Back America 2005 conference, in Washington D.C. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/7/11437/00894, June 2, 2005

Venkitesh Ramakrishnan in: Citizen President K.R. Narayanan, 1920-2005. http://www.frontline.in/navigation/type=static&page=flonnet&rdurl=fl2224/stories/20051202005012500.htm, Frontline

“It is better to live ten years at a thousand [miles per hour] than a thousand years at a ten”
From the lyrics of his song Vida Louca, Vida (Life, Crazy Life)