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Quotes About Impatience

By Saturday evening Duke Henri was in a tantrum, possessed by the rage of a young man who finds that the world does not work in the way he confidently expected.
~ Ken Follett
I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.
~ Ken Kesey
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
~ Ken Kesey
A guy sitting in the room someplace I can't see is talking about a guy up on Disturbed that killing himself. Old Rawler. Cut both nuts off and bled to death, sitting right on the can in the latrine, half a dozen people in there with him didn't know it till he fell off to the floor, dead. What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
~ Ken Kesey
To perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.
~ William Shakespeare
These tedious old fools!
~ William Shakespeare
Surprised by joy—impatient as the wind.
~ William Wordsworth
I got to pee.
~ Winston Groom
They are waiting for us again. My youngest lad and me. The crows around the floodlights. The dogs around the gates. They are waiting for us because we are late again. My youngest lad and me.
~ David Peace
and she starting barking impatiently a half hour before each feeding time.
~ David Rosenfelt
Do not wait too long in living your dreams.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.
~ Mrs. Patrick Campbell
A vingt ans, attendre est une torture.
~ Javier Moro
I saw a stupid ad for a microwave that cooks in ten seconds. Are there really people who say, "I've been home for ten seconds, where the hell is dinner?"
~ Jay Leno
It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me
~ Jean Anouilh
Karim s'adossa au mur, pris d'un vertige. Puis il scruta sa montre. Il avait bien tué deux heures. Mais ces heures l'avaient tué en retour.
~ Jean-Christophe Grangé
I can't believe he's making you wait till January for an appointment." "I could threaten to bomb the school. That'd get me in quicker.
~ Jeannine Garsee
The impatient, feckless reader, posessed of no glimmer of intellectual or historical curiosity, should do an old historian a favor and skip the next few pages, proceeding directly to the Silence itself (Part III). I would assume that, in these horrid modern times, that will include most of you. Of course, those readers least likely to read these footnotes, and thus least likely to appreciate the next few pages, will skip this note and bore themselves upon the ennui of history .
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Impatience which would brook no opposition had been a part of John Pendleton's nature too long to yield very easily now to restraint
~ Eleanor H. Porter
There's so much she can't wait for.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Matt thought, as though he couldn't count the weeks for himself.
~ Elizabeth George Speare
Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.
~ Ally Carter
He was nearly home, and he was experiencing in full the phenomenon of something unpleasant becoming far more so when one need not endure it much longer.
~ Alys Clare
One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.
~ Robin S. Sharma