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Quotes About Impatience

Would you get your butt in here? Shit, you are slow as a fat kid on crutches, Zoey.
~ P.C. Cast
Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The last few minutes of waiting in a cupboard are always the hardest.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
But those who read thrillers are an impatient race. They chafe at scenic rhapsodies and want to get on to the rough stuff.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Nothing upsets a fowl more than having to wait for dinner.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I am listening, I tell you. Get to the point. And talk quick, darn it. Remember it's costing forty-five bucks every three minutes.' For Mrs Moon was speaking from her apartment on Park Avenue, New York. And though it was the woman who would pay, waste even of other people's money was agony to Mr Frisby. He possessed twenty million dollars himself, and loved every cent of them.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Soon is such a long word.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
I can't wait for this to come out in October!
~ Dan Brown
The mistake is waiting and waiting for the payoff like it's a reward you've got coming
~ Dan Simmons
As for Women that do not think their own Safety worth their Thought, that impatient of their present State, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes, that run into Matrimony, as a Horse rushes into the Battle, I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a Sort of Ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd People...
~ Daniel Defoe
It was some time, indeed, before it came to this, for, but I know not by what ill fate guided, everything went wrong with us afterwards, and that which was worse, my husband grew strangely altered, forward, jealous, and unkind, and I was as impatient of bearing his carriage, as the carriage was unreasonable and unjust.
~ Daniel Defoe
I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. But that's why right there it was doomed. We couldn't only have the magic nights buzzing though the wires. We had to have the days, too, the bright impatient days spoiling everything with their unavoidable schedules, their mandatory times that don't overlap, their loyal friends who don't get along, the unforgiven travesties torn from the wall no matter what promises are uttered past midnight, and that's why we broke up.
~ Daniel Handler
I was afraid it would come to this, but I have no patience with her now. I'm jealous of every moment away from the work - impatient with any one who tries to steal my time.
~ Daniel Keyes
And I waited, as a blasphemer waits for lightning. I looked away.
~ Daniel Keyes
I fear that the day I die, I am going to die without accomplishing what I have in my mind. Life is too short, and a lot of things can happen, and I am really keen to see it with my own eyes – and that is why I am in a hurry.
~ Mohammad bin Salman
I believe life is too short to wait and see.
~ Paige Toon
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.
~ L. T. Meade
Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
~ George Crabbe
From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer for Breaking Dawn.
~ Wendy McClure
She does, certain; the best of young folks is, they remind us of the old ones. 'Tis nateral to cling to life, folks say, but for me, I git impatient at times. Most everybody's gone now, an' I want to be goin'. 'Tis somethin' before me, an' I want to have it over with. I want to be there 'long o' the rest o' the folks. I expect to last quite awhile, though; I may see ye couple o' times more, John.
~ William J. Bennett
One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
~ Chinese proverb
Don't fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.
~ Chris Lynch
Four minutes," Walter said, "seems like four hours.
~ Christa Faust