(101 quotes found)
“Impatience is the cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances Command by obeying.”
Motto
“Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.”
Michel de Montaigne
“A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.”
Edmund Burke
“I think American impatience has to do with the notion that we don't know what we're doing. If we could project that we are moving in the right direction, Americans are ready to be very patient.”
Zalmay Khalilzad
“We were still able to do that. I guess I was a little impatient and didn't want to wait for that.”
Fred Wieck
“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
“I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.”
Chris Albrecht
“You get impatience. Then you start showing what you're going to do early because you get more aggressive.”
Kevin Bentley
“All football fans, and those who might become fans, are feverish with impatience for the World Cup next summer,”
Samuel Schmid
“We rushed a lot of shots when we had the lead. We were too impatient. But we've got to give St. Charles credit. They came back and got a tough win.”
Sanijay Watts
