Best Impatient Quotes
284 Impatient quotes by 242 unique authors
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I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things. I am a very impatient person and headstrong. If…
— Vivien Leigh
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I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried…
— Rita Hayworth
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of…
— William Hazlitt
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It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in…
— Mark Van Doren
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I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper.…
— Helen Keller
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How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African American congressmen, become a party that…
— Rand Paul
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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,…
— Phyllis McGinley
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... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community…
— Wes Jackson
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
— Gautama Buddha
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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are…
— Hesiod
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Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
— Megan Chance
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The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint.…
— Socrates
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It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset…
— Henry L. Stimson
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I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the…
— Eli Broad
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To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people…
— Michael Haneke
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My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month,…
— Tracy Chevalier
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In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.
— Phillis Wheatley
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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,…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.
— George Crabbe
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The woman gestured to a seat and put on a patient face. An impatient sort of patient face, like an impatient face dressing up as…
— Shannon Hale
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Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with…
— Marcus Buckingham
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A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world…
— Norman Bethune
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Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I…
— Alan Shearer
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