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• Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

  Conrad Aiken

  Fall, Rain, Dust

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Ties, Anxiety, Matter

  Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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• My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up the sequent path; they fly On a circumference to avoid the centre.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Light, Opposites

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown.

  Jane Austen

  Fate, Gowns, Knows

  Jane Austen, Vivien Jones (2004). “Selected Letters”, p.30, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon, on which I am mounted, see how he bends his once stiff neck to his rider, champing his checked bit and pawing the dust, impatient to leap around the globe. Genius is prescient, foresees its own might. Man is striving through these iron-ribbed, steam-sped hippogriffs, to recover his lost ubiquity and omnipotence, and threatens soon to grasp in his ample palm, and fix with flaming eye-ball, the elemental forces!

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Eye, Men, Dragons

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle our impatient steps; Conducted through those labyrinths, unawares, To privileged regions and inviolate, Where from their airy lodges studious lawyers Look out on waters, walks, and gardens green.

  William Wordsworth

  Garden, Water, Labyrinth

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.1983, Delphi Classics

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• He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Successful, Thinking

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• We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, and of how life came to be. And when we think in terms of millions of years, we are not so impatient that our own problems be solved tomorrow.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Thinking, Years

  "Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson", edited by Linda Lear, (p. 96), 1999.

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• To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

  Stephen Spender

  Eye, Night, Light

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Graphology is another in a long list of quack substitutes for hard work. It is appealing to those who are impatient with such troublesome matters as research, evidence analysis, reasoning, logic, and hypothesis testing.

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Hard Work, Long, Research

  "Graphology". "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll, skepdic.com.

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• I am an incredibly impatient person.

  Mindy Kaling

  Persons

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all.

  Lydia Davis

  Writing, Style, Stories

  The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Being an impatient person, I wanted to do what my grandmother said: "Do as much as you can as fast as you can; be as productive as possible." But you must be patient. So I have struggled to balance patience with being an impatient person, and trying to find a happy medium.

  Farrah Gray

  Grandmother, Balance, Trying

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• In our human lives, we are often impatient, ill-tempered, inappropriate. We find it difficult to treat our intimates with the love we really hold for them. Despite this, they bear with us because of the larger, higher level of family that they honor even in our outbursts. This is their commitment.

  Julia Cameron

  Commitment, Soul, Honor

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.261, Souvenir Press

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• We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

  Michael Huffington

  Art, Church Service, Long

  "For What Profits A Man If He Gains The Whole World But Loses His Own Soul" by Michael Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I've never been satisfied with myself, ever. But I feel good about myself, because I'm truthful. I don't corrupt myself. I'm also a perfectionist. I'm very impatient. I've got energy and drive and I can't stand inefficiency in people. And I can't stand dumb people. Why surround yourself with people who are going to tie you down? I don't suffer fools.

  Jack LaLanne

  Ties, People, Feel Good

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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. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  Socrates

  Girl, Thinking, People

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• Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

  Megan Chance

  Patience, Men, Generosity

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• Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

  George Carlin

  New York, Car, People

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Thinking, Waiting

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come up with an episode until when it airs. We can't drag it out that long. With film, and this is not a profound observation or an original one; it can go on endlessly unless the movie's like incredibly topical. That's the challenge for me, as an impatient person who wants see things come to life. ... I mean, it's just this feeling I get when I see a movie I love.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mean, Long, Profound

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Frustrated, Brain, Swear

  "I've an overactive brain". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2008.

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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 the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Country, Retirement, Army

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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 say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, People, Waiting

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• The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.

  Rick DeMarinis

  Zero, Book, Heart

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