Sin Impatience Quotes

#1. Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

W. H. Auden

#2. What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back and see it was full of treasures.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#3. SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

Douglas Coupland

#4. Impatience is the cardinal sin of youth.

M.T. Bass

#5. Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

John Updike

#6. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Tom Lantos

#7. If you don't know what to do, there's actually a chance of doing something new.

Philip Glass

#8. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Heather Choate Davis

#9. There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#10. We have really no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good.

Edgar Allan Poe