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Quotes About Impatience

If only she could have e-mailed or texted him, that would have solved everything, but mobile phones and the Internet were still in the future.
~ Liane Moriarty
They were all just sitting here. Waiting. What were they meant to be doing? The desire to interact was an irresistible itch.
~ Liane Moriarty
Wait until you see him up on a horse
~ Linda Lael Miller
I ain't got time to pay somebody to drive my vehicle.
~ Iman Shumpert
Oh, I wanted this killer stopped, brought to justice, yes, certainly - but did it have to be so soon?
~ Jeff Lindsay
I have really good eyesight," I said, wondering if everyone who came in to see me today was going to be profoundly annoying.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Rubber gloves," I said, and my impatience burst. "Come on, open it up." He looked at me as if I had suggested doing something indecent. "Open it!" I said. Vince
~ Jeff Lindsay
while everyone in all the cars behind you swelters in the July sun that no air-conditioning can ever overcome
~ Jeff Lindsay
Rita was not in the waiting room when I stepped off the elevator, so I sat down and thumbed through a copy of GOLF magazine. There were several articles on improving my short game that would have been much more interesting if only I played golf. The large golden clock on the wall said it was exactly two thirty-six when the elevator doors slid open and Rita stepped out. "Oh, Dexter, you're here already," she said. I
~ Jeff Lindsay
She was always saying, 'Fuck this school,' or 'I can't wait until I get out of here.' But so did lots of kids.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
I love Amazon 1-Click ordering. Because if it takes two clicks, I don't even want it anymore.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
The woman rolled her eyes so loud I could hear it.
~ Jess Lourey
waiting for her movie to start," and that she'd almost missed out on her life waiting for it.
~ Jess Walter
The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the season. His impatience makes him feel that he is incontrovertibly, finally, an adult.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
~ Nora Roberts
The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers
~ Sunday Adelaja
Some patient dogs had waited a long time for the fatest bone to come, but the impatient had gone to scavenge for the little it could see.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I am a stereotypical northeasterner. I'm always in a rush. I've attracted stares from out-of-towners when I've shoved past someone blocking the subway door.
~ Chris Gethard
Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard
~ Tyne O'Connell
Some of our triggers have been tagged by the British media "hurry sickness." As one columnist wrote, "People who tap their fingers impatiently as they wait for the microwave to finish or huff and puff while their computer starts up could have the latest malady to modern living — 'hurry sickness.'"13 We live life at such a fast pace that if something does not happen quickly enough, we can become indignant and sometimes enraged.
~ Unknown
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
~ Clayton Christensen
The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?
~ Joe Girard
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
~ Dick Wolf
My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'
~ Stephanie Gilmore