Best Impatient Thoughts
284 Impatient quotes by 242 unique authors
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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…
— Henry B. Eyring
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For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.
— Ken Kesey
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The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a little better…
— Cornel West
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Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to…
— Richard Bach
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My experiences of men has neither disposed me to think worse of them nor be indisposed to serve them: nor, in spite of failures which…
— Robert E. Lee
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Connection" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous. ...I don't doubt that instant communication has been good…
— Paul Theroux
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I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or…
— Jean Ferris
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We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit…
— Nicholas Sparks
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he knows too much about himself to subject her to a morning after, when he will be cold, surly, impatient to be alone.
— J M Coetzee
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When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.…
— Julian Barnes
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There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan
— Daniel Keyes
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A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it.…
— Dani Shapiro
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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the…
— Amy Tan
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Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did…
— Jane Austen
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his…
— Walter de La Mare
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But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing…
— Fernando Pessoa
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The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The hour of steaming…
— Paul Verlaine
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You know Yellowfang, don't you? she was cranky, stubborn, impatient-and the most loyal cat you will ever meet.
— Erin Hunter
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Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and…
— Vernon Howard
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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…
— Shirley Jackson
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She sees ghosts,” said Samuel, impatient with my whining. I see dead people,” I deadpanned back. Oddly, it was Uncle Mike who laughed. I hadn’t…
— Patricia Briggs
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You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this,…
— Alison Croggon
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