logo

Quotes About Impatience

I get bored easily.
~ Rajpal Yadav
I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
~ Anthony Hopkins
People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
~ Mahershala Ali
People don't want to suffer. They want to sound good immediately, and this is one of the biggest problems in the world.
~ Steve Lacy
We really suffer from a hot-take disease, wanting to be the first one who has the hottest take.
~ W. Kamau Bell
Patience has never been my strong suit.
~ Michael Chiklis
There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.
~ John Niven
Oh hours of childhood, when behind each shape more than the past appeared and what streamed out before us was not the future. We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake of those with nothing left but their grownupness.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
While they mean to please each other, they touch each other only impatiently and in a dominating manner. And in the effort to escape from the intolerable and unbearable condition of their confusion, they commit the greatest mistake that can be made within a relationship: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
A woman's voice answered, Hello? Walter cried back at her, Hello, oh Lord, hello! This is a recording, recited the woman's voice. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message on the wire spool so she may call you when she returns? Hello? This is a recording. Miss Helen Arasumian is not home. Will you leave a message - He hung up. He sat with his mouth twitching. On second thought he redialed that number. When Miss Helen Arasumian comes home, he said, tell her to go to hell.
~ Ray Bradbury
More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere.
~ Ray Bradbury
We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.
~ Ray Bradbury
More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee.
~ Ray Bradbury
More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun, and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and super organize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience. Highways full of crowds going somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, nowhere. The gasoline refugee. Towns turn into motels, people in nomadic surges from place to place, following the moon tides, living tonight in the room where you slept this noon and I the night before.
~ Ray Bradbury
Vampire Willow: Bored now.
~ Joss Whedon
Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance. Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already.
~ Jude Watson
After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater.
~ Judy Blume
Delay in justice is injustice.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most.
~ Walter Van Tilburg Clark
woman told her on her first visit. "Otherwise I'll never hear you and you'll stand out here for days." "Hold your horses, I'm here, I'm here," a familiar voice calls now, from the other side of the door. When it flies open, Clara momentarily expects, as always, to find herself looking at an adolescent tomboy with red pigtails
~ Wendy Markham
FIFTEEN MINUTES later
~ Wendy Orr
Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.
~ Wendy Pearlman
the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.
~ Wes Jackson
40 minutes in a city is nothing. But 40 minutes along a rural highway seems like an eternity. So we're driving along, and I ask my friend if we're there yet, and he says no, so I say, "Jesus. By the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore." There is this pause in the car, and one of the other actors says, "Dude. Did you just quote your own movie?" I answered in the affirmative, and he says, "That was very cool.
~ Wil Wheaton