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Quotes About Impatience

I hate patience. Slows everything down.
~ J.D. Robb
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
~ Jack McDevitt
ceux qui crèvent d'ennui, le dimanche après-midi parce qu'il voient venir le lundi et le mardi, et le mercredi , et le jeudi et le vendredi et le samedi et le dimanche apres midi
~ Jacques Prévert
1] God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. 2] But we moderns are impatient and destructive 3] And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. 4] In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the bottle.
~ John Crowe Ransom
First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.
~ John Crowley
Beware of the waiting room. He closed the door at once, as if he had rehearsed that moment. I opened it quickly, and leaned out to call after him, The what? He turned, but only to give a sharp wave, the Trafalgar Square crowd swallowed him up. I couldn't get the smile on his face out of my mind, it secreted an omission. Something he'd saved up, a mysterious last word. Waiting room. Waiting room. Waiting room. It went round in my head all that evening.
~ John Fowles
The gate was packed with weary travelers, most of them standing and huddled along the walls because the meager allotment of plastic chairs had long since been taken. Every plane that came and went held at least eighty passengers, yet the gate had seats for only a few dozen.
~ John Grisham
People tended to be fascinated or repelled by him, as he was very direct in his approach to people and was impatient of any pretentiousness.
~ John Heaton
Logging is most dangerous if you're impatient; saws and axes, peavys and cant dogs—these tools belong in patient hands.
~ John Irving
Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?
~ John Kennedy Toole
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
~ John Lennon
I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.
~ Eli Broad
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
~ E. W. Howe
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.
~ Peter Damian
I'm yelling 'I'm ready!' to my mom even though I'm still trying to find my stuff.
~ Unknown
I hate it when you send a long text message to someone & they just reply with k.
~ Unknown
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle.
~ Unknown
I hate when the remote is way over there....
~ Unknown
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
~ Mae West
He wants to tear down the sky, he wants to rip every blossom from that tree, he wishes to take a burning branch and drive that pink-clad girl and her nag over a cliff, just to be rid of them, to clear them all out of his way. So many miles, so much road stands between him and his child, and so few hours left.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
The problem is," her brother says, striding through the attic, through the words scattered on the floor, making the curls of paper skitter and swirl around his boots, "that I have no talent for it. I cannot abide waiting.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
La solitude rend impatient, c'est l'impatience qui tue l'enfance.
~ Marc Levy
C'est l'impatience qui tue l'enfance.
~ Marc Levy
Las lluvias de noviembre habrán corrompido las flores de mi tumba, las habrá quemado junio y mi alma seguirá llorando siempre de impaciencia.
~ Marcel Proust