"The opposite of patience is not impatience, but…" — Jackie Pullinger

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• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks… — Jimmy Breslin
• Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this… — James Keller
• When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection… — Unknown Author
• The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience. — George Horne
• Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear. — Guy Finley
• Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. — Rita Mae Brown
• What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast. — May Sarton
• Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. — Larry Wall
• Force I will meet with gentleness; impatience with patience. — Walter Russell
• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,… — Ron Franscell
• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be… — Hyman Rickover

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