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Quotes About Impatience

Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers
~ Dean Koontz
Nor did he grow impatient about the delay, for impatience was a characteristic of those who didn't understand that time flowed to a purpose that neither impatience nor haste could change for the better, though often for the worse.
~ Dean Koontz
My, my, will you look at the time?" Bailey muttered, staring down at her watch. It was half-past frustration and thirty minutes to despair. The only way she could easily extricate herself from this mess was to leave—now.
~ Debbie Macomber
By the time they arrived, the snow was coming down fast.... It's beautiful, she said, pausing outside the door. She thrust out her hands and let the snow land on her palms. Yes, yes... Reid seemed in a mighty big hurry to get her inside. How long did you say the storm would last? she asked, thinking it would be so beautiful. The snow -- not being trapped with Reid Jamison. Reid hesitated. Longer than either of us is going to like, he muttered, looking miserable. Jenna was afraid of that.
~ Debbie Macomber
She couldn't wait to peel off the panty hose.
~ Debbie Macomber
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Codeine...bourbon... (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).
~ Unknown
They'd been here twenty seconds, and already nothing was happening.
~ Denis Johnson
I can't sit still. It drives me up the wall.
~ Bob Crane
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
~ Isobelle Carmody
He who is not impatient is not in love.
~ Italian proverb
You know you are somewhat impulsive, but you have learned to control yourself. The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions - carelessness, approximation, imprecision, whether your own or others'. In such instances your dominant passion is the impatience to erase the disturbing effects of that arbitrariness or distraction, to re-establish the normal course of events.
~ Italo Calvino
I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.
~ J. J. Abrams
It was like sitting in a silent room waiting for someone very important someone for whom you have been waiting a long while and then suddenly hearing a knock on the door. For just a minute you hesitate wondering who it might be and what does he want and why did he come. For just a second you're scared because although you've waited for years you really never expected the knock.
~ Dalton Trumbo
He realized that, despite the dangers and alarms of the day, waiting was perhaps the worst thing of all.
~ Dan Abnett
Life is too short for traffic.
~ Unknown
My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed off at America. Society. American movies. American TV. American culture. American politicians. Capitalism. I'm a little like my old man in that way only I'm a recovered drunk. He wasn't. I should have been dead years ago like my brother but somehow I dodged the bullet and it gave me something to say. Impatience and rage are always just beneath the surface for me.
~ Dan Fante
What a snoozefest! He went on like that for about a million hundred hours. I had no idea what he was talking about. My shirt was itchy. My tie was choking me. I thought I was gonna die. All I could think about was when Mayor Hubble would stop talking so we could go eat some Peeps.
~ Dan Gutman
For God's sake, Maeve!
~ Unknown
a particular complex of personality traits, including excessive competition drive, aggressiveness, impatience, and a harrying sense of time urgency. Individuals displaying this pattern seem to be engaged in a chronic, ceaseless, and often fruitless struggle—with themselves, with others, with circumstances, with time, sometimes with life itself.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Now I understand that this passion for pain, even in the torture of martyrdom, represents the haste and impatience to no longer be interrupted and disturbed by the evil that can come from this side (meaning this life).
~ Lou Andreas-Salomé
I almost had to wait.
~ Unknown
Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don't give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.
~ Louise L. Hay
Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When
~ Louise L. Hay
The mixture of cafe au lait and impatience was producing an exquisite vibration.
~ Louise Penny