
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
Djakarta Dispatches https://books.google.com/books?id=R8oAbRp1gVsC&pg=RA35-PP15&lpg=RA35-PP15&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false (1960)
“If you are patient… and wait long enough… Nothing will happen”
“When the mind is busy, the stomach cannot complain of hunger too.”
1990s, Victory speech (1994)
“A hungry stomach cannot hear.”
Book IX (1678–1679), fable 18.
Fables (1668–1679)
“When power is within reach, few will wait patiently for it.”
Source: The Ghost Brigades (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 169)
“There she was, patiently waiting, alone, formidable in her gentleness.”
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
Gwendolen, Act III
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting