Quotes About Impatience

If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

After two minutes after this time, and I am already there.

Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.

Why the hell do I have to keep updating my apps on my iPhone all the time and why you don't fix that?

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.

Being around humans over a long period of time taught me to understand that their impatience and ambition and their constant need for hurry, hurry, hurry is just their way of attempting to outrace their own mortality.

eux ils entendaient leur jeunesse frapper à leurs portes comme un oiseau enfermé.[...] C'était l'hymne de l'avenir, des départs, du terme de l'impatience. Ce qu'ils attendaient c'était de rejoindre cet air né du vertige des villes pour lequel il était fait, où il se chantait, des villes croulantes, fabuleuses, pleines d'amour.

J'avais fini par faire de ma mortelle envie un rempart contre elle-même : la perpétuelle possibilité du suicide m'aidait à supporter moins impatiemment l'existence, tout comme la présence à portée de la main d'une potion sédative calme un homme atteint d'insomme.

Je veux voir le film, grosse bête.»

Las referencias feroces, aunque vagas, que escuchaba en boca de los cadetes, estimulaban su imaginación. En sueños, el nombre se presentaba dotado de atributos carnales, extraños y contradictorios, la mujer era siempre la misma y distinta, una presencia que se desvanecía cuando iba a tocarla o lo sumía en una ternura infinita y entonces creía morir de impaciencia.

This way of 'choosing to be an an artist' seems lost for ever to today's impatient and cynical youth, who dream of seizing glory any way they ca, even if to reach it they must climb a mountain of pachydermatous shit.

I looked like I wasn't at a cocktail party but an airport, waiting for my life to take off. Infinitely delayed.

He also had a gung-ho hairline. It couldn't wait to get started

As a society, we're so focused on instantaneous gratification that our short-term solutions often become long-term problems.

When I found that she was impatient I chose the shortest sermon for our Sunday evening's worship, to the great discomfort of my mother." Phineas wondered whether this assertion as to the discomfort of old Mrs. Kennedy could possibly be true. Could it be that any human being really preferred a long sermon to a short one, — except the being who preached it or read it aloud?

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The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.

He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.