Best Impatient Proverbs
284 Impatient quotes by 242 unique authors
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The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals…
— Robert Bresson
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I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything,…
— Haruki Murakami
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Beautiful and diabolical. You make me impatient indeed to claim you.
— Jeaniene Frost
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To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me…
— Erlend Loe
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There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all…
— Chinua Achebe
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After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality.…
— Robert Creeley
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Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That…
— Samuel Johnson
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If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.
— Gurbaksh Chahal
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Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service ... I've seen…
— Barack Obama
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Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with…
— Paulo Freire
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it…
— Roger Bannister
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Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen…
— Joel Osteen
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Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps.…
— Joseph Butler
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Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
— Jenna McCarthy
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Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are…
— Gautam Gambhir
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My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
— Bitsie Tulloch
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We live in an impatient world. Everybody is always looking for the next big Kobe, the next big LeBron, the next big Twitter.
— Shaquille O'Neal
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