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Quotes About Impatience

Fill me in on the details of your life." "I thought you didn't give a shit." "It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.
~ Christina Dodd
Why do we have to go to Summerwind Abbey tonight? Why couldn't we have waited until I at least combed the sand out of my hair?" She heard the whine in her voice and realized she'd been reduced to petulance. With any luck at all, she'd become a nag and make Jermyn a dreadful wife.
~ Christina Dodd
With well-feigned impatience, he asked, "Don't you recognize a man who's urgently trying to impress his woman with his good deeds?" "No, is that what you're doing?" "Most definitely." He did kiss her, but only a swift brush of his lips, a tease that made her want for more. "Although I suspect it has lost its impact since I had to point it out.
~ Christina Dodd
Such a nice body. She nearly dropped her brush. Will you stop! Just the low velvet touch of his voice sent heat curling through her body. It was sinful and unfair to have such a voice. I did not think you would ever speak with me as a lifemate would. I waited long for that impatient comment.
~ Christine Feehan
to be here in his room waiting for him, it wasn't nearly enough. They
~ Christine Feehan
I promised myself I'd wait until you turned twenty-one and that's in a few more weeks. I already know that's too damned far away.
~ Christine Feehan
Bryant lurched away from the kerb and out into the traffic without bothering to look or signal. He'd come to anticipate the chorus of horns greeting his entry into the traffic stream, rather as bugles announced the arrival of Caesar.
~ Christopher Fowler
The high ambition, therefore, seems to me to be this: That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism. This would mean really deciding to learn from history rather than invoking or sloganising it.
~ Christopher Hitchens
My kingdom for a razor-blade cowcatcher and Cuisinart wheel covers to cut my path through this herd of ignorant peasant meat, she thought. Then: Whoa, I guess I really do need the meds.
~ Christopher Moore
No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido allí, sino más bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: ¡Venga, coño! Yo me largo de aquí.
~ Christopher Moore
Nasuada didn't foresee this delay, now did she? Oh no. She thought I could run flat out from there to Farthen Dûr. Ha! Kicking at a branch
~ Christopher Paolini
Come on, Daddy, turn it on, stop teasing!
~ Christopher Paul Curtis
The expression the impatience of youth is silly. The longer I live, the more impatient I become.
~ Christopher Pike
Qu'est-ce qui vous effraie le plus dans la pureté? — La hâte.
~ Umberto Eco
and impatience sets traps for us, and prepares regrets that sometimes last all our lives.
~ Upton Sinclair
Cubby kept looking for Miss Renshaw--it was like waiting for the bus, constantly thinking that each little sound was Miss Renshaw and Morgan coming back
~ Ursula Dubosarsky
become antsy
~ Val McDermid
Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!
~ Venedikt Erofeev
and black sky. She waited impatiently for her third martini, making small talk with the bartender. The minute the drink was ready, she set a course for the terrace, sailing past the
~ Kristin Hannah
Here we are now, entertain us.
~ Kurt Cobain
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
~ la bruyere jean de ii
I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
~ lagerfeld karl ii
I've been looking forward to this for weeks. You don't even know. It's like, gross hunter, gross hunter, gross hunter, puppet show!
~ Laini Taylor
I have no strategy. I just want to skip all this and get to the part where he's my boyfriend. Not to mention, you know, the part where he's aware I exist.
~ Laini Taylor