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Quotes About Impatience

We like little children, because they tear out as soon as they get what they want.
~ Kin Hubbard
I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
~ Larry Wall
you just can't wait to get out of your head, can you?" "if you were in here you might want that too.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?
~ Neil Gaiman
I hate having to wait. I've got the thing done. I just want to see what happens.
~ Randy Newman
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
~ Duke of Wellington
There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.
~ Susan Minot
It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.
~ Susan Patron
He was looking at me in a way that he never had before. Impatient. A little bored. As if I were not so smart after all.
~ Susanna Moore
And then he stood there, outside her apartment building, watching the lights go on in her apartment, angry and frustrated and dying to be up there with her, and wondering what on earth he was going to do now.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
it took them long enough to show up,
~ Suzanne Collins
Things move really fast on the Internet and get forgotten, we always want something new, even though something may have just came out.
~ Justine Skye
Famously, I'm somewhat impatient.
~ Gordon Brown
When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.
~ Chino Moreno
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.
~ Hugh Laurie
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
~ Plato
During our first date, I wanted to hold your hand so badI almost cut mine offand threw it at youto see if you would catch it
~ Colin Gilbert
The longer we had to wait for it, the more severe it would be.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
However, to think of stimulating the mind of the child usually requires a higher level of consciousness (and of patience) of the parent than does the practice of handing down ready-made solutions. Impatience is often the enemy of good parenting.
~ Nathaniel Branden
There are few things he can stand less than a bunch of morons standing around looking at something that doesn't work and wondering who's going to fix it.
~ Neal Shusterman
Can we just get on with this already?(7).
~ Neal Shusterman
I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.
~ Neal Shusterman
Beside him Acher kept pulling up music, but never let a song finish before looking for a new one.
~ Neal Shusterman
I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.
~ Charles Bukowski