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Quotes About Impatience

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
~ Franz Kafka
It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
~ Franz Kafka
Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache.
~ Franz Kafka
Es gibt zwei menschliche Hauptsünden, aus welchen sich alle andern ableiten: Ungeduld und Lässigkeit. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie aus dem Paradiese vertrieben worden, wegen der Lässigkeit kehren sie nicht zurück. Vielleicht aber gibt es nur eine Hauptsünde: die Ungeduld. Wegen der Ungeduld sind sie vertrieben worden, wegen der Ungeduld kehren sie nicht zurück.
~ Franz Kafka
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out, because of impatience we cannot return.
~ Franz Kafka
İnsan?n belli baÅŸl? iki günah? vard?r, öbürleri bunlardan ç?kar: sab?rs?zl?k ve tembellik. Sab?rs?z olduklar? için Cennet'ten kovuldular, tembelliklerinden geri dönemiyorlar. Ama belki de belli baÅŸl? sadece bir günahlar? var: Sab?rs?zl?k. Sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü kovulmuÅŸlard?, sab?rs?zl?klar?ndan ötürü geri dönemiyorlar.
~ Franz Kafka
All human errors stem from impatience, a premature breaking off of a methodical approach, an ostensible pinning down of an ostensible object.
~ Franz Kafka
Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.
~ Amy Heckerling
It's annoying when someone's in front of you driving ten miles an hour, and you're like, 'Okay, today,' and someone else is on the side of you, so you can't pass them, and when you finally do pass them and they are texting, the laser cannons just come out and disintegrate that car.
~ Glenn Danzig
I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.
~ Jill Clayburgh
Let's get this over with," Walt blustered to Noah. "They're setting up some mighty fine-looking food back at the house and those Riordans are circling like starving dogs. I'd like to get back there while they're still sober enough to make the toasts." Noah
~ Robyn Carr
I went to sleep every night that week waiting for whatever it was between the two of us to start traveling at the speed of flashlights, but it never did. As always, she left me wanting more, and dreaming of what it would be like if I ever got it.
~ Robyn Schneider
You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.
~ Rodman Philbrick
I've decided the act that cannot wait / is the important will to create / But, ah, if my belly is ignored / the pantry door I shall implore / But I've been known to reach the bed / ideas still famished in my head.
~ Roman Payne
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.
~ Ronald Reagan
And although the mourners well hid their irritation, it was inevitable that there were some who were impatient. If you are dead, stay dead, someone muttered.
~ Louise Erdrich
I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this rate.
~ Louise Rennison
youth may be nothing more than a hurry to grow old.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Era come se in quel momento stesse contemplando al di là della sterminata pianura e oltre i vulcani l'enorme tumultuoso azzurro oceano stesso, percependolo ancora dentro il cuore: l'impazienza illimitata, la brama incommensurabile.
~ Lowry Malcolm
Anders took the phone, but his attention was on the computer on his lap. It had gone into standby mode. As he waited impatiently for it to start up again, he muttered, "I should have told her." "Told who what?" Mortimer asked, distractedly. "Valerie, I should have told her I love her. But I figured she'd think it was too soon and—" He didn't bother finishing.
~ Lynsay Sands
sufletul mi-a fost stricat de lume, am o imaginaÈ›ie f?r? astâmp?r, inima mi-e avid?; pentru mine totul e puÈ›in: m? obiÈ™nuiesc la fel de repede cu tristeÈ›ea ca È™i cu desf?tarea, iar viaÈ›a îmi devine tot mai pustie pe zi ce trece
~ M. I. Lermontov
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
~ Larry Wall
Gifted children tend to be very impatient and need constant stimulation, otherwise they become aggressive.
~ Amulya Malladi