Top 100 Quotes About Impatient
#1. Did you know Radha still waits, impatient for you, in Vrindavana? Like a wraith beneath the trees, since you didn't say farewell.
Ramesh Menon
#2. Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
John Crowley
#3. My mind is so impatient, so quick, in some ways so desperate.
Virginia Woolf
#4. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle
#6. The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden
#7. The thing to do when you're impatient," he proceeded, "is to turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you.
Washington Square Press
#8. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.
Colin Wilson
#9. I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
Karen Armstrong
#10. Don't be impatient with yourself. Just be in awe.
Pat Rodegast
#11. I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen.
John Cale
#12. A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#13. It's okay to be impatient. As long as you show your patience on the outside.
Lisa M. Cronkhite
#14. Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
Pearl S. Buck
#17. Impatience is really a condition for people with control issues; people become impatient, and angry, when they find themselves in any situation beyond their control.
Zane
#18. Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Craig Raine
#19. I am an impatient, temperamental reader. Anything long-winded, high-flown or gushing irritates me, so does everything that is vague and indistinct, in fact anything that unnecessarily holds the reader up, whether in a novel, a biography or an intellectual argument.
Stefan Zweig
#20. There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George Mason
#21. I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.
Loretta Young
#22. The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.
Wes Jackson
#23. If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
#24. My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
Bitsie Tulloch
#25. I'm a fast and impatient dresser, so I can't dress myself up for too long. I don't even need a lot of makeup, so I'm usually ready in about half an hour.
Genelia D'Souza
#26. Oh hours of childhood,
when behind each shape more than the past appeared
and what streamed out before us was not the future.
We felt our bodies growing and were at times impatient to be grown up, half for the sake
of those with nothing left but their grownupness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#27. He once told an interviewer, "I'm impatient with the past and irritable with the present. The future is where my concern lies, and I'm very optimistic about it.
Sharon M. Moen
#28. He's a moody creature,isn't he?" she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary.
"Sounds like she got up on the wrong side of the perch," Alan commented.
"Oh,no.She's in a good mood if she says anything.
Nora Roberts
#29. Are we not all shipwrecked, ... condemned to death? ... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults ...
Henri Frederic Amiel
#30. The example of patient suffering is in itself the most precious of all lessons to an impatient world.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. Vassily cleared his throat, probably impatient with Gabriel's bookshelf manners. 'You'll have to excuse me,' Gabriel said, putting back the booklet, 'I have a severe addiction to ink.'
'Don't we all?' Vassily nodded. 'Thank God we have other addictions to assuage it a little.
Jean-Christophe Valtat
#32. First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb ... we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.
Truman Capote
#33. They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words.
William Faulkner
#34. Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.
Jeaniene Frost
#35. Don't get impatient when it takes too long.
Drake
#36. An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.
Vladimir Kramnik
#37. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#38. Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
William Petty
#39. Kali waved an impatient hand. "We can't have a pity party right now. I didn't bring the cake.
Cassidy Hunter
#40. I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
Cherie Lunghi
#41. Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.
Geoffrey Ballard
#42. A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.
Seth Klarman
#43. I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
Bill Gates
#44. Some may still be impatient to die for the emperor, but the chief point in life is to die of something and never for something if it can be helped.
William H Gass
#45. We are an impatient culture and an impatient electorate.
Dick Couch
#46. I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?
J.D. Robb
#47. I'm a pantser. I try to plot. I always try to plot. I end up with a few paragraphs that basically outline the gist of the story.But I never get much beyond that. I get too impatient to write.
Pamela Clare
#48. He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
Jean De La Bruyere
#49. I think the folks who go after grand challenges are impatient.
Peter Diamandis
#50. Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.
Tom Robbins
#51. Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus than that to adore You.
Flannery O'Connor
#52. I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#53. People tell me that I'm impatient because they can't realize each year that passes represents over 1% of a life gone.
Robin Sacredfire
#54. What happens to impatient girls who try to tell their man what to do in bed?" She stifled a sob of pleasure. "They have to wait longer.
Tessa Bailey
#55. It takes only one word to hurt a woman, a matter of seconds, one stupid, impatient blow of the crop. But winning back her trust takes years. And sometimes there isn't the time.
Nina George
#57. This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.
Matt Taibbi
#58. I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.
Trevor Noah
#59. I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: He is nothing but a boy
a little boy!
Dale Carnegie
#60. There, as the sacred mysteries tell us, the Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones occupy the first places; but, unable to yield to them, and impatient of any second place, let us emulate their dignity and glory. And, if we will it, we shall be inferior to them in nothing.
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
#61. Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#62. I meant to learn something," Sophie said, impatient. "Something else than embroidery or dancing, or playing pretty tunes on the pianoforte. I am not a decorative object, Father. I have an intellect, also, and I wish to make good use of it.
Sylvia Izzo Hunter
#63. Jackie said more than once back in the day that Mike was impatient," Colt explained. "Dated the wrong sister. At the time, Dusty was too young. He waited a few years, according to Jackie, he'd get his soulmate.
Kristen Ashley
#64. I'm coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!
-Skye yelling back to Hagan.
J.L. McCoy
#65. I've been with you all day.
I'm trying to stay calm.
I'm impatient and it's really hard to breathe.
I'm going to empty you and fill you in with me ...
Slipknot
#66. Don't be impatient when it takes too long. Or drink it all even when it tastes to strong.
Drake
#67. The Sabbath, along with the other practices he exposits, concerns the maintenance of a distinct faith identity in the midst of a culture that is inhospitable to all distinct identities in its impatient reduction of all human life to the requirements of the market.
Walter Brueggemann
#68. Don't you think that although you have the sorrows of humanity at heart, sometimes you are a little impatient with the sorrows of particular men?
Florence Converse
#69. We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan
#70. He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.
Shirley Jackson
#71. Our lips melted together as he kissed me. Hard. Aggressive. Impatient. If kisses could kill, ours would have.
R.S. Grey
#72. The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God's patience, to challenge the world's impatient violence by cross and resurrection.
Stanley Hauerwas
#73. There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
Thomas Foran
#74. Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.
Henry B. Eyring
#75. In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he would fail to see the signs and omens left by God along his path.
God placed them along my path.
Paulo Coelho
#76. She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.
Lawrence Block
#77. I told her it (sex) was beautiful. I wanted to prove it to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing. She sighed in the dark.
Jack Kerouac
#78. It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10
John Owen
#79. Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.
Nancy Pearcey
#80. Did we win?" Salan asked as Karol stood. "Hell yes, we did," Karol said, glad that he didn't have to lie to say it. "You just stay there and wait your turn. And don't get impatient. We don't rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes." "Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir.
Daniel Abraham
#81. I'm probably a little too impatient with ensuring that the networks and organizations I'm part of are doing the right thing, and pushing the right thing the right way.
John Prendergast
#82. If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about.
Dada Bhagwan
#83. You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes.
Jerry Della Femina
#84. People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.
Rohit Sharma
#85. With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.
Johann Lamont
#86. Oh, come on, Harry," said Hermione, suddenly impatient. "It's not Quidditch that's popular, it's you! You've never been more interesting, and frankly, you've never been more fanciable.
J.K. Rowling
#87. The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.
Phyllis McGinley
#88. It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them ... not as if they had met before ... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.
Lisa Kleypas
#89. Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood,
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!
William Shakespeare
#90. I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool ...
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
#91. The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.
Hillel The Elder
#92. No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.
Eric Shinseki
#93. About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.
Gene Tierney
#94. Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.
Jay Kay
#95. Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains and the sea. They bore through silent nature in every direction with their machines, for fear that the calm world might accuse them of their own emptiness.
Thomas Merton
#96. I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
Rand Paul
#97. Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.
Rick Riordan
#98. She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept.
Beth Fantaskey
#99. Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.
Carrie Fisher
#100. For he was a god who laid some special stress on the fierce impatient side of things ...
Saki