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a8131e1 Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. time love hurry impatience William Shakespeare
a189a92 who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes, travel death sadness beauty-alone impatience insight Allen Ginsberg
511595d Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available. fruit modernity impatience Alain de Botton
981c686 You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! oyster alice-in-wonderland wonderland patience impatience Lewis Carroll
0241d34 Quick words did not always mean a quick mind. self-discipline impatience Jeff Shaara
95f0da7 It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. men clever dark love embarrass impatient late ordinary embarrassment mediocrity mother mystery mysterious father impatience Daphne du Maurier
7fa5eeb Another one is cleaning up tool that have been used and not put away and are cluttering up the place. This is a good one because one of the first warning signs of impatience is frustration at not being able to lay your hand on the tool you need right away. If you just stop and put tools away neatly you will both find the tool and also scale down your impatience without wasting time or endangering the work. motorcycle-maintenance frustration impatience Robert M. Pirsig
a0dba83 By Allah, how _thankful_ he is (_yes, madam, one moment, madam_), how _gladdened_ by the thought that Magid, Magid at least, will, in a matter of four hours, be flying east from this place and its demands, its constant cravings, this place where there exists neither patience nor pity, where the people want what they want _now_, right now (_We've been waiting twenty minutes for the vegetables_), expecting their lovers, their children, their friends, and even their gods to arrive at little cost and in little time, just as table ten expect their tandoori prawns. . . . pity patience impatience Zadie Smith
d788e4b Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others. impatient labor patience impatience Ivo Andrić
636c5aa The habit of mobility had become ingrained. openness culture technology impatience Doris Kearns Goodwin