Quotes About Impatience

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.

I'm getting to be like a white man," she said. "I'm getting in a hurry for you to tell me what this is all about.

what was most unfair about being a teenager was the way time moved with such implacable slowness most of the time, only to evaporate into quicksilver at moments like this.

Traveling can be boringly slow sometimes, even if you are effectively traveling at speeds faster than light.

or even You're right, or maybe I'm a giant idiot and I wouldn't be offended if you abandoned me here. But instead, "You were taking forever

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Good grief! They're going to call us inside soon, and Sticky hasn't even met Madge yet!" "Who's Madge?" Sticky asked. "Her Majesty the Queen!

8:58 We go to McDonald's. The woman in front of me in line spends more than five seconds contemplating her order. This infuriates me, "WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?? MC-SEABASS?? IT'S THE GODDAMN MCDONALDS'S MENU, IT'S BEEN THE SAME FOR TEN YEARS! IT'S ALL MCSHIT!JUST ORDER!

All right, I'll wait another two thousand years to make jokes about my evilness.

Blaze yet and I hate waiting.

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

how could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

It is one thing, I was discovering, to think, Maybe I won't have kids, and quite another to be told, Maybe you can't. This is how impatience turns to desperation.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

If you're not comfortable with delay, frustration and impatience, get out of the Senate. It's the nature of the institution, but I think we've taken it to an art form.

Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

Can we move this conversation along, old chap? I'm getting frightfully tired of

What the fuck does it take to show you motherfuckers, what does it fucking take what do you want how much do you want because I am willing and I'll stand before you and I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long, for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me-- Oh do it, do it motherfuckers, do it do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.

People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry.