It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
No more restless uncertainties, no more anxious desires, no more impatience at the place we are in; for it is God who… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A certain amount of impatience may be useful to stimulate and motivate us to action. However, I believe that a lack of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Impatience and frustration are self destructive emotions. It may make one a victim of stress and disappointment. We must learn to accept… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
The same rebellion, the same impatience, the same anger that exists in the hearts of the dark people in Africa and Asia… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
That is the optimal creative vantage point: To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation-with no feeling… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
“When one has come to explore the ' instant moment ' and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“Joseph was not impervious to frustration and impatience. Cried he from the filthy confines of Liberty Jail, "O God, where art thou?"… — Angela Eschler Copy Share Image
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find… — Susan Patron Copy Share Image
The young nobles, of whom there were many, were volunteers, who had paid their own expenses in expectation of a golden harvest,… — Francis Parkman Copy Share Image
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as… — Rodney Collin Copy Share Image
Do not be vexed with those who show pride, or malice, effeminacy, and impatience in their intercourse with you, or others, but… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“When God says hold up, wait, pray, it’s not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some… — Heather Choate Davis Copy Share Image
I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to… — James Keller Copy Share Image
God has never failed me, I've only ever lost Patience and Faith in Him. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
