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Quotes About Impatience

If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.
~ Romola Garai
We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.
~ Seymour Krim
It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.
~ Simon Patrick
It took only seconds for me to make these discoveries, but even in that short time, my stomach nearly jumped through my mouth trying to reach the food.
~ Stephenie Meyer
I Rushed to get back before it was time.
~ Lionel
How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!
~ Mary Collyer
You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow." "Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.
~ MaryJanice Davidson
Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Incubated. And then raised. And then beheaded. And then plucked. And then cut up. And then put on a grill. And then put on a bun. Damn, it's gonna take a while. I don't have time. Scrambled!
~ Mitch Hedberg
Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
~ Mark Twain
The Doors Open at 7, The trouble begins at 8.
~ Mark Twain
A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.
~ Mark Twain
Saumensch, du dreckiges—it's about time!
~ Markus Zusak
He was impatient to be free.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Your life is not your own," he said. "Keep your hands off it." "What use is it to anyone?" "How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world." The
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Your life is not your own," he said. "Keep your hands off it." "What use is it to anyone?" "How can you tell? The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you comin' through the door.
~ Arthur Miller
I also knew Grenville was a man easily bored.
~ Ashley Gardner
Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and watch your door. You will just stare. As though rebuffed by it. As though it has done this to you.
~ Augusten Burroughs
You have an incredible body. He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed.
~ Augusten Burroughs