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Quotes About Impatience

If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would try to pass them.
~ Stephen Hawking
Fuck this. Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.
~ David Levithan
I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.
~ David Levithan
instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.
~ David Levithan
Noah se ha convertido en mi «cuánto falta para».
~ David Levithan
antsy, adj. I swore I would never take you to the opera again.
~ David Levithan
The trouble with instant gratification is, it takes too long.
~ David Morrell
What are you, tap dancing up there? You want a put on a show, do you? Well, the theater's closed for the night. Take your act on the road; it's four o'clock in the morning,goddamnit.
~ David Sedaris
Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly.
~ David Sedaris
Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.
~ David Sedaris
Motherfucker, I ain't seen pussy in so long, I'd throw stones at it.
~ David Sedaris
Time, time, time . . . Roger muttered. Ask me for anything but time.
~ David Weber
Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why must you be locked up in this dreadful cage of childhood for twenty or a hundred years? Nothing in life was possible unless you were old and rich, until then you were only small and futile before your tormentors, desperately waiting for the release that only years could bring.
~ Dawn Powell
The first few weeks of any firefighter's career are an impatient wait to start living the dream, and mine were no different. This was back before I understood that it was also a job, that there would be moments of frustration and grief, back when it was a fantasy that had come true but hadn't stopped being a fantasy yet.
~ Unknown
She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world's sloppy errors, one among many, which might be easily corrected if only people would bring to the problem the focus she brought to everything.
~ Zadie Smith
I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.
~ Zane Grey
I'm a child in that respect: able to live, psychically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.
~ Zoë Heller
he meant to marry her right from the train. Hurry up and come because he was about to turn into pure sugar thinking about her.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
~ Buddy Rich
I just can't stand being in airports anymore. I just can't stand it.
~ Bill Medley
We just found that in 2016, if you announce a record, and it's coming out in three months, and you're just giving people breadcrumbs, it's the most boring, drawn-out experience.
~ M. Shadows
Xervish Flydd, to Nish. 'You took your bloody time, Nish. I expected you nine years ago.
~ Unknown
She had almost tripped over him as he watched the drops fall with idiot fascination. Somehow she could not hurry past with a brief flicker of nona dolorosa to indicate her annoyance
~ Unknown