Quotes About Impatience

It takes less time for them to conquer the world than it takes for me to brush my teeth. That's pretty disappointing.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad...How can'st thou endure without being mad?

Captain Ahab had evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand, monomaniac object.

Well, well; no more. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, black-smith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? - What wert thou making there?

Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!

On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.

Life just seems too huge and too fascinating for me to begin thinking about curing my restlessness at this stage of the game. Maybe later.

No, we are getting ahead of our story, and only an jackass would do that

Young men of my type are prone to be impatient of details, and give their loyalties without regard to evidence.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.

These were the months that shaped us.behind all our frustrations over all these years has been the wish to get back to those happy days.Once we began to see the world differently we could feel time running out on us and we were impatient with each other.Every disagreement was an interruption of what we knew was possible-and soon there was only interruption.And in the end time did run out,but memories are still there,accusing us,and we still can't let each other alone.

Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Saiman's ass. Any minute now. Any minute.

Hold your horses. I'm coming.... From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously. The snow swam out of focus. Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-liners straight.

The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who'd made the staircase so short. I'd throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.

I'd been in Atlanta for less than a day. It was entirely too early to start killing people.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

Youthful impatience obscures the endless potential for joy that's standing right in front of you.

Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we've grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.