Quotes About Impatience

Carl Joseph turned red. It seemed as if his father, the rain, the clocks, people, time, and nature itself were determined to make his trip even more difficult. On those afternoons when he had managed to visit the living Frau Slama, he had also listened for the golden stroke of the bells, as impatient as today, but intent on not finding the sergeant in. Those afternoons seemed buried behind many decades. Death overshadowed and concealed them, Death

Alderpaw realized that he was gaping like a blackbird chick waiting for food.

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You'll be feeling more than impatience if you keep giving me rubbish tasks like this! he predicted mutinously.

But why have you called me here?" Storm's gaze hardened. "We're growing tired of waiting." Waiting? For what?

Yellowfang was cranky, stubborn, impatient—and the most loyal cat you could ever meet.

You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.

Yeah, I wish we could skip this storyline crap," Cruz said. "Bor-ing.

So I remained stuck at school. I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

But somewhere along the way our ability to tell (and to listen to) stories was lost. As life speeded up, as the possibility of both communication and annihilation became ever more instantaneous, people came to have less tolerance for that which comes only over time. The demand for perfection and the craving for ever more control over a world that paradoxically seemed ever more out of control eventually bred impatience with story.

She made a gesture of impatience. 'Do you never think of the future?' 'Not in your presence,' laughed Nick. 'I think of you—you—and only you. Didn't you know?

The other line moves faster.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, one of our great modern Isaian prophets who had extensive experience with violence in two world wars, wrote, "The greatest temptation of our time is impatience, in its full original meaning: refusal to wait, undergo, suffer. We seem unwilling to pay the price of living with our fellows in creative and profound relationships."*3

When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

I am a man in a hurry.

I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

My worst quality is impatience.

I'm too impatient.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

I'm impatient.