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Philosophy and science have not always been friendly toward the idea of God, the reason being they are dedicated to the task of accounting for… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Other people can’t cause us to be impatient unless we let them do so. In other words, others don’t make us impatient. We make ourselves… — Surya Das
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who… — Kurt Vonnegut
As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks - it seemed more… — Donna Tartt
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but… — Martin Luther
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge. — Edgar Allan Poe
But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked like. I thought… — Loretta Chase
We sat there, not talking, for a few minutes. He ate the Moon Pie; only skinny people can scarf down junk food like that. Finally,… — Sarah Dessen
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… — Lisa Kleypas
Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt,… — John Crowley
I couldn’t see Pritkin’s face very well, just a pale blur against the shadows, but he didn’t sound happy. Some people thought he had only… — Karen Chance
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… — Tom Robbins
[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be… — T.H. White
It's my motto," said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. 'Nothing less than seven inches.' Meliorn gazed at her stonily. 'I'm talking about my heels,' she… — Cassandra Clare
She was trying to sound tough and impatient, but she knew that vulnerable desire to be wooed was still brimming in her tone. — Anna Godbersen
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to… — Margaret Mitchell
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… — William Faulkner
He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be… — Karen Marie Moning
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in… — Jane Austen
He laughed, and it raised goose-bumps on my arms. "Oh,ma petite ,ma petite , you are precious." Just what I wanted to hear. "So how… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she… — Jennifer Donnelly
I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don’t enjoy being… — Peter Cameron
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… — Rick Riordan

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