I Have Lost My Patience Quotes

#1. By the time the Somnambulist had set her creaking bones to rest on their assigned landing pad, Holden had lost all patience with human stupidity.
So, of course, it came out to meet him.

James S.A. Corey

#2. Do you have any idea how boring you became, Rachel? How ugly? Too sad to get out of bed in the morning, too tired to take a shower or wash your fucking hair? Jesus. It's no wonder I lost patience, is it? It's no wonder I had to look for ways to amuse myself. You've no one to blame but yourself.

Paula Hawkins

#3. Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Bill Brandt

#4. I fear that in my eagerness to persuade you, I lost patience. And indeed I regret it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. The very moment I admitted we were flirting, I lost patience for it.

Susan Choi

#6. Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.

Matthew Pearl

#7. That seems to show that somebody knows more than we do upon the moor

Arthur Conan Doyle

#8. What can I give you, Aislinn? Shall I weave flowers into your hair?"
He opened his hand, letting go of her hair. An iris blossom sat in the palm of his hand. "Shall I bring you necklaces of gold? Delicacies mortals can only dream of? I'll do all those things anyway. Don't waste your wish.

Melissa Marr

#9. [She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Gail Carriger

#10. We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.

Martina Boone

#11. The answer to our prayer may be coming, although we may not discern its approach. A seed that is underground during winter, although hidden and seemingly dead and lost, is nevertheless taking root for a later spring and harvest.

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

#12. In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#13. Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#14. For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

Johnny Depp

#15. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Criss Jami

#16. I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.

Donald Trump

#17. Someone had to laugh, and I was pretty much the only one who got me. It was a lonely life.

Darynda Jones

#18. He believes in romance. He isn't merely going through the mechanical movements of a man in an exciting situation. He is, vitally and positively squeezing the last drop of delight from living the best life he knows in the best way he can.

Leslie Charteris

#19. In the old days he had clutched life with such violence that the juice of it ran out between his fingers and was lost, but now he would touch it delicately, thankful for the good and accepting the ills with patience.

Elizabeth Goudge

#20. You tread upon my patience: but be sure I will from henceforth rather be myself, Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition, Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down, And therefore lost that title of respect Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.

William Shakespeare

#21. The ability of an audience to enter into the narrative arc of a movie is being lost; do today's audiences have the patience to wait for Harry Lime in The Third Man?

Roger Ebert

#22. I looked at him. I wondered what it would be like to have a father whose face you couldn't see. Whether a day would finally come when, as the daughter of a father like that, you simply lost patience - or whether you got used to it, like bad wallpaper.

Herman Koch

#23. Tell me what's the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn't know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

Anna Kamienska

#24. I think the church is failing today not because of lost of gospel but because of lost of focus. You start losing focus when you stop caring about what God cares about. When you lose focus, God will no longer back you in your endeavour.

Patience Johnson

#25. My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

Ilona Andrews

#26. There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

A.J. Darkholme