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Quotes About Impatience

They were rocketing along a country lane where there was no cell phone service, propelled by the grouchy Mogul's constant, ill-tempered exhortations. "Faster!" yelled the Mogul, who was used to yelling at people he felt entitled to yell at. "I don't want to be late to this fucking thing!
~ Stanley Bing
Labella snapped shut her cell phone with a sigh, and looked down at her fingernails, delightfully painted a useless shade of purple.
~ Stefano Benni
As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see the opening right in front of you.
~ Stephen Chbosky
He was the sort of man who demanded results yesterday but then forgot to ask for them tomorrow.
~ Stephen Hunter
Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'
~ Stephen King
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
~ Loesje
The morning dragged and lasted two years.
~ Jojo Moyes
Will stared out the windows like a dog denied a walk.
~ Jojo Moyes
and waited to feel as if I had really started living. Nine months on I was still waiting.
~ Jojo Moyes
block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I
~ Jojo Moyes
Everything takes time, Will. And that's something your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your wag almost instantaneously.
~ Jojo Moyes
Mmm.' She was thinking. My sister actually has a 'thinking face'. It makes people wait before speaking to her. Dad says my thinking face makes it look like I want to go to the loo.
~ Jojo Moyes
Heights—an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
Nell'attesa, il mio odio restava lì, intatto, maturo, qualcosa di pieno e quasi succulento dentro di me, una catasta che attendeva un fiammifero.
~ Jonathan Littell
You will be late for your own funeral.
~ Jonathan Nolan
I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored.
~ Jonathan Stroud
But I do not think we can wait for painting. This place is dangerous for us. Perlain is already impatient with us. I can see it by the way he lashes his tail.
~ Emily Rodda
My toes are going to come," -Mariann The Night Owl
~ Emma Holly
En la personalidad inmadura hay una exaltación del instante y un vértigo por lo inmediato; la necesidad de una pronta recompensa le impide renunciar a las demandas del entorno. Y
~ Enrique Rojas
Por mucha tendencia o vocación de esperador que tenga, y por mucha fibra heroica que habite en él, la espera de la llegada del ascensor se le hace infinita.
~ Enrique Vila-Matas
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
~ Eric Alterman
This is a generation best summed up by the kid that will stand in front of a microwave oven shouting, "Come on, I ain't got all minute!
~ Eric Chester
She must remain vigilant not only against overt threats—and a fifteen-foot-tall Tzimisce war ghoul was not entirely out of the realm of possibility here, she reminded herself ruefully—but especially against the more subtle dangers: impatience, indulgence, indiscretion. These three deadly sisters would kill as surely, if not as swiftly, as any fiend.
~ Eric Griffin
the burning desire to tell the story of my dream was such that an hour seemed like an eternity.
~ Eric Metaxas