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Quotes About Impatience

even while deceiving him, she loved him. How often we sacrifice the fulfillment of a possible happiness to our impatience for an immediate pleasure!
~ Marcel Proust
M. Verdurin replied in a hasty tone and with an embittered groan, not of grief but of irritated impatience: "Why yes, of course, but what's to be done about it, it's no use crying over spilt milk, talking about him won't bring him back to life, will it?
~ Marcel Proust
Kaip dažnai gyvenime b?sim? laim? šitaip pražudo nekantra patirti malonum? tuojau pat!
~ Marcel Proust
The laborious process of causation which sooner or later will bring about every possible effect, including (consequently) those which one had believed to be most nearly impossible, naturally slow at times, is rendered slower still by our impatience (which in seeking to accelerate only obstructs it) and by our very existence, and comes to fruition only when we have ceased to desire it—have ceased, possibly, to live.
~ Marcel Proust
I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.
~ Hugh Casson
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?
~ Robin Williams
Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.
~ Jim Rohn
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good
~ Samuel Johnson
Sono egoista, impaziente e un po' insicura. Commetto errori, sono fuori controllo e, allo stesso tempo, difficile da gestire. Ma se non sei in grado di gestire il mio lato peggiore, allora certamente non sarai in grado di gestire quello migliore.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Je suis égoïste, impatiente et peu sûre de moi. Je fais des erreurs, je suis hors de contrôle, et parfois difficile à gérer. Mais si vous ne pouvez pas me supporter pour le pire, nul doute que vous ne me méritez pas pour le meilleur.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.
~ Marina Abramovic
A man in a business suit stepped around me, barking, "Excuse me," and glaring, as if I was slowing him down from getting his asshole-of-the-year award. He
~ Unknown
Yeah, that's likely," Jolie replied, her voice keen with sarcasm. "And until then, we'll count the bluebirds and rainbows shooting out of my ass.
~ Unknown
Judge Barnett always said A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.
~ Unknown
A/C is for people who don't have the patience to be hot.
~ Unknown
Your client is that common animal, the Classic Narcissist. He doesn't care if he's making your life miserable, cutting into your profit margin, or getting you in trouble with the boss. He wants what he wants—and he wants it now, now, now.
~ Mark Goulston
God damn it! Where's my wine?
~ Unknown
It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~ Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
~ Mark Twain
I hate sitting in traffic, because I always get run over.
~ Milton Jones
We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.
~ Eugene Ormandy
I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
~ P. J. O'Rourke