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Quotes About Impatience

the time between almost and right away...
~ Kristan Higgins
James glanced at his watch. Fifteen minutes had passed. This felt longer than a problematic colonoscopy.
~ Kristan Higgins
1.3 Restlessness
~ Carlo Cercignani
Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Of course, she'd also heard that rakes enjoyed the chase, the thrill of pursuing a reluctant woman, and she'd just scotched any prospect of that. But when she thought of how long it would take to entice Liam into wanting her, then pursuing her, pretending reluctance, before finally succumbing… Who had time for that? She wanted to know now.
~ Caroline Linden
Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.
~ Carrie Fisher
Immediate gratification takes too long.
~ Carrie Fisher
I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.
~ Carrie Fisher
instant gratification takes too long." Anyway
~ Carrie Fisher
Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.
~ Cassandra Clare
I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored
~ Cassandra Clare
The cheese will be served when I want it served, and I want it served now.
~ George R.R. Martin
We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
~ George Steiner
L'alcool tue lentement. On s'en fout. On n'est pas pressés.
~ Georges Courteline
Ancak ölüm kibrini uyand?rabiliyordu. Onu orada buradakilerden daha çok insan bekliyordu.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.
~ Dan Chopin
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
~ W. H. Auden
Killing time is the chief end of our society.
~ Ugo Betti
After such an introduction, I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.
~ Evelyn Anderson
Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
~ George Edward Herbert
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
~ Simeon Strunsky
Despair is the offspring of fear and impatience.
~ Proverb
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
TelaÅŸla uykunun inine geri dönsem de rüyaya tekrar giremiyor, aÄŸz?m? suland?ran ekmeÄŸin tad?na bakam?yorum. -Barbarlar? Beklerken
~ J. M. Coetzee