Impatient Quotes - Page 6

• I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not!

  Lynda Carter

  Jobs, Real, People

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• This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Men, Ideas

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• About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient.

  Gene Tierney

  Careers, Serious, Sometimes

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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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

  People, Guy, Waiting

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

  Bernard Pivot

  People, Feelings, Complaining

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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 cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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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 than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Pain, Ideas

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.1260, The Floating Press

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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 tea and banished books; The sweetness of the evening at an end, The dear fatigue, and right to rest attained, And worshipped expectation of the night,— Oh, all these things, in unrelenting flight, My dream pursues through all the vain delays, Impatient of the weeks, mad at the days!

  Paul Verlaine

  Dream, Book, Night

  Paul Verlaine (1906). “Poems”

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• I think a play can do almost anything, because it's also a static form, much more so than in a movie. In a movie you can move the scenery, you can do anything any way. A cartoon, happens in a limited amount of space and a limited amount of time, and you can only get so many words before the reader's gonna get impatient. All of these forms that I enjoy are in a sense a slight of hand, where you have to suggest much more than you really show. You have to, in a sense, seduce the reader and trick the reader or the audience into going with you.

  Jules Feiffer

  Moving, Thinking, Cartoon

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• Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Children, Parent

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

  Lysander Spooner

  Morning, Horse, Party

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• First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

  Truman Capote

  Food, Squirrels, Grit

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• Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...?
  With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Artist, Important

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• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.
  "What are you doing?" you ask.
  "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree."
  "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?"
  "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work."
  'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster."
  "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Men, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.363, Mango Media Inc.

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• I work in waves, because I'm impatient. Because of a certain physicality, of lack of breath from standing. It has to be done and I do take liberties I wouldn't have taken before.

  Cy Twombly

  Taken, Liberty, Done

  "I work in waves". Interview with Nicholas Serota, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophical, Race, Together

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• Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

  Paul Ehrenfest

  Mind, Frogs, Bears

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• Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Littles, Action

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• Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Relentless, Areas

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• I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

  Rita Hayworth

  Taken, Eye, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Flames, Links

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• ... the forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run.

  Wes Jackson

  Running, Long, Community

  Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry (2011). “Nature as Measure: The Selected Essays of Wes Jackson”, p.106, Counterpoint Press

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• The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

  Joseph Addison

  Holiday, Age, Return

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• It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Doe, May

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

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