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Quotes About Impatience

Shut up, idiot. I'm counting bongs.
~ Eoin Colfer
She was drawn to nature more than to her fiancé. She suspected that happiness was hiding out of doors, behind a tree, like a rabbit; she could see the tip of its nose, she could sense its presence, its invitation, its impatience .
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
He would give Imogen another fifteen minutes, he decided. If she had not put in an appearance by then, he would abandon her to her own devices. But he had no sooner made that firm resolve than he hastily changed his mind. The thought of Imogen left to her own devices was enough to chill his blood.
~ Amanda Quick
Fantasists aren't natural readers. They grow restive easily.
~ Amit Chaudhuri
God, "Kashmir" was a long damned song.
~ Amy Lane
man, two quarters, a twist of a knob, that kid should have fallen into our laps by now!
~ Amy Lane
I rolled my ankle and alienated your youngest sister," Deacon snapped, out of patience with his day. "Put me on the back of a horse and let's see if I can raze the town!
~ Amy Lane
The ball never fucking landed.
~ Amy Lane
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
~ Andre Gide
I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.
~ Andre Agassi
After years of hearing my father rant at my flaws, one loss has caused me to take up his rant. I've internalized my father—his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage—until his voice doesn't just feel like my own, it is my own. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day on, I can do it all by myself.
~ Andre Agassi
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
~ Andrea Arnold
each second was a century
~ Andrew Field
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
~ Andrea Arnold
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
~ Bill Veeck
There was a feeling during the years of George W. Bush's presidency that his gracelessness as well as his appetite for war were linked to his impatience with complexity. He acted 'from the gut,' and was economical with the truth until it disappeared.
~ Teju Cole
I am terrible. When I buy stuff, I want it straight away. If it says two to three weeks delivery - no way. I will find somewhere that will deliver it that afternoon.
~ Deborah Meaden
It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.
~ Picabo Street
If you desire, you are restless.
~ Jackie Shroff
I couldn't stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.
~ Jean-Marc Vallee
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
~ Michelle Obama
I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
~ Anne M. Mulcahy
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
~ Manuel Puig
I had piercings all over my face, which did look dreadful, but I got them done while waiting for my husband Michael to get a tattoo. I was bored.
~ Pete Burns