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Quotes About Impatience

I kept my eyes on the doorway. Me, and a hundred wooden birds.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
and it can't wait.
~ Anna Jacobs
An insane impatience for death was driving mankind to a second suicide, even before the full effect of the first had been felt.
~ Anna Kavan
Would this day never end? His eye traveled to the clock at the front of the room and he fell into the pool of his favorite question.
~ Anne Carson
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift from the sea.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Get it, get it, get it!" moaned Bean. She had never been so bored in her entire life. She was so bored she fell on the floor. Then she took a tiny peek up at the lady in the dressing room next door. Yow. "Get up, Bean!" said her mother. "This minute." Bean got up and sat on the triangle seat again. She waited. Nancy looked at herself. "I kind of like it," Nancy said. "But it costs forty dollars. That's all my
~ Annie Barrows
Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.
~ Howard Jacobson
He waited rather breathlessly for her next remark...
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
In ten seconds he had completely lost his appetite and gained on hundred thousand dollars.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Futile and sensitive, I'm capable of violent and consuming impulses – both good and bad, noble and vile – but never of a sentiment that endures, never of an emotion that continues, entering into the substance of my soul. Everything in me tends to go on to become something else. My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus than that to adore You.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I might actually get a calendar just to cross them down to feel like the days are going faster.
~ Jofra Archer
People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
~ M. Shadows
Every one tells me that I'm a pretty fast eater. I'll sit down to a dinner, and I'll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.
~ Jimmy Graham
Why is 'Game of Thrones' the most pirated show in the history of TV? Because people can't get it fast enough, that's why.
~ Kevin Spacey
When I was a child, we used to look forward to the end of the day when we would hear another ten minutes of a story.
~ Malorie Blackman
I tend to be very impatient, thinking about all the ways we can do something, my mind and hands spinning at a very fast rate.
~ Jeff Dean
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
~ Alan Dean Foster
We live in an age where everything is based on the short term.
~ Howard Schultz
I'm terrible with patience.
~ Katherine Heigl
Uno piensa que con el paso de los años se va a volver más sapiente y criterioso, que va a ser como el viejo que le enseñaba a Kung Fu: el sabio. Pero es mentira, con el fútbol estoy cada vez más intolerante y maniático.
~ Roberto Fontanarrosa
You poison today's ease, reaching always for tomorrow.
~ Robin Hobb