Quotes About Impatience

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting. Why don't you grow up by yourself? she asked him, and wondered how many people—how many women—had already asked him that.

Constance sighed, and tapped her fingers irritably and almost noiselessly on the stair rail. I wish she'd hurry, she said into my ear, my soup is going to boil over.

If you are not ready in three minutes I will come in and drown you. I want my breakfast.

They dream that they are already up, that they are washing, or already in school, at the office, etc., where they ought to be at a given time. The night before an intended journey one not infrequently dreams that one has already arrived at the destination; before going to a play or to a party the dream not infrequently anticipates, in impatience, as it were, the expected pleasure.

me parece que gran parte de la ira que fue el detonante de la violencia revolucionaria se originó en la hostilidad hacia la modernización, más que en la impaciencia provocada por la rapidez de sus avances.

Ik schrijf zo snel omdat ik benieuwd ben naar de afloop.

Sadness can be wept away. But the impatience of delight---it is not so easy to get rid of that.

La tristeza puede llorarse. Pero la impaciencia de la alegría no es fácil de conjurar.

Gosh all fishhooks! Ted wailed to Eunice, as they wolfed hot chocolate, lumps of nougat, and an assortment of glace nuts, in the mosaic splendor of the Royal Drug Store, it gets me why Dad doesn't just pass out from being so poky.

See you soon (but not soon enough).

The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

It was terrible to have that much nervous energy and nothing to do with it.

impatience gets the better of us. The politicians, no offense, see an impasse. So they give the word, and the armies clash. They take territory or destroy it, kill hundreds, sometimes thousands. And it all comes down to the ones who started talking giving in to frustration.

What made him irresistibly charming – his impulsiveness, his impatience with the dull, his insistence on energy,28 his sense of the comic, the depth of his emotional responses, his intense determination to do things his way, his willingness to try anything – these would have been the very things with which Wieck had the greatest trouble.

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

Oh, nonsense," snapped Ellery, honking his klaxon. His face convulsed as he leaned out of the car and yelled to a crowding taxicab with the righteous wrath of all motor-maniacs: "What the hell d'ye think you're doing?

I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

Am abuzat de cuvîhtul dezgust. Dar ce alt termen s? aleg pentru a indica o stare în care exasperarea e neîncetattemperat? de plictiseal?, iar plictiseala de exasperare ?

Perhaps it is necessary to have been, like Nebuchadnezzar, something of a wild beast, and shut up in a cage at the Jardin des Plantes without other prey than the butcher's meat doled out by the keeper, or a retired merchant deprived of the joys of tormenting his clerks, to understand the impatience with which the brother and sister awaited the arrival of their cousin Lorrain.

How many minutes is shortly?" I asked. "Is it one minute or eight minutes or eleven minutes? On account of if it's one minute, I can wait, probably. But eleven minutes would be out of the question." Mr. Scary walked back to my desk. And he sat me in my chair. I glanced up at him. "All I'm looking for is a rough estimate," I said.

I'm very impatient, and if I get a new piece of technology, no matter what it is - I recently got the iPhone, which is very exciting - I can't be doing with reading manuals. I want it to work immediately and to do what I want it to do.

I recently purchased an iPad 2 because I didn't want to wait for the iPad 3 and iPad 4.

There are a lot of things that frustrate me. I get frustrated when I have to wait at a red light.