(101 quotes found)
“`I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we have ceas”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Nature thrives on patience; man on impatience.”
Paul Boese
“I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.”
Loretta Young
“I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons too long”
Margaret Asquith
“To make it a top-down solution isn't the answer. There is this incredible sense of impatience and this incredible sense of entitlement, and I am actually scared to death. Nobody is pushing back. ... The more we centralize this, the more dangerous it gets.”
Claire Rubin
“What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."”
“Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.”
Rita Mae Brown
“No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.”
Jeremy Taylor
“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness.”
Franz Kafka
