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We were promised that help is coming. But we’re getting a little impatient here, we maybe have a week’s food left. A lot of our stores are closed now because of roof collapse and the gas stations seem to be short on fuel still. – Derek Hayes	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient. – S.A. Quinox	added by QuinoxPoetry 1 year ago
I'm getting a little impatient with expecting the Department of Justice to hold the Bidens accountable, so a couple of weeks ago, we filed a new lawsuit, and we've included Hunter Biden and the campaign to elect Joe Biden in that lawsuit. So, again, I'm hoping to be a thorn in his side until there's some accountability. – Mac Isaac	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was over here, I turned around the light was red, and the truck got impatient for whatever reason and charged into the crowd, there’s at least three people, I look over I see people trying to push the truck back, and I just instantly got mad and ran over and tried to stop the truck. I tried to stop him, he grabbed (and) ripped my sign, and push me down drove off and that was it. – Alexis Russell	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It’s absolutely fantastic to be back. I’ve genuinely missed this so much, i have been getting a little bit impatient the last two or three months, getting ready to play. – Ash Barty	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.” – ― Marilyn Monroe	added by bjamila90 3 years ago
One has to remember that Silicon Valley, even biotech, they are very impatient. But we saw with Theranos that [ public health ] is a little more complicated. – Anat Admati	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We can not be the United States' junior partner, i'm impatient for European solutions. – French President Emmanuel Macron	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I'm impatient for European solutions. – French President Emmanuel Macron	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
My goal was to get the first place twice in a row... so I became a little bit impatient because of my first mistake in the Axel. But I was able to recalculate and reassemble the structure of my performance, i tried to switch my mind and focus on the next element right away after my mistake. It was good experience for me to prepare for the next competition. – Rika Kihira	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I was very impatient. In a way, also was maybe paying attention to it too much, to the Grand Slams, i was just playing better tennis at the other tournaments. At Madrid, Rome, other Masters, the World Tour Finals. – Alexander Zverev	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Ben Platt and Jessica Lange have such a strong friendship and deep knowledge of the other, so it was very easy, i can be very impatient with acting these days, and Ben Platt was really good at wrangling that impatient side. – Gwyneth Paltrow	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I know that the people are impatient and want fast answers but fast answers are often the wrong answers. – Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Sipila is rather impatient, he isn't used to long negotiations with the unions, for example, which is the custom in Finnish politics. He leads with a company executive style, moving ahead quickly. – Ilkka Ruostetsaari	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When students become impatient because of the long queue, I tell them to consider this a preview of Beijing's traffic jams, i tell them, you have to remain calm and patient. – Geng Guizhi	Found on CNN 8 years ago
He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants, ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement. – Jeh Johnson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
People who are aware of what education systems are like in other parts of the world are becoming increasingly impatient with the Chinese education system, it has an enormous emphasis on rote learning, classes can spend ludicrous amounts of time repeating the same things again and again, it often doesn't value creativity. – Michel Hockx	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week. – Eric Temple Bell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life. – James Goldsmith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who is not impatient is not in love. – Italian Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection. – Herbert Hensley Henson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We were promised that help is coming. But we’re getting a little impatient here, we maybe have a week’s food left. A lot of our stores are closed now because of roof collapse and the gas stations seem to be short on fuel still.

– Derek Hayes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient.

– S.A. Quinox

added by QuinoxPoetry
1 year ago

I'm getting a little impatient with expecting the Department of Justice to hold the Bidens accountable, so a couple of weeks ago, we filed a new lawsuit, and we've included Hunter Biden and the campaign to elect Joe Biden in that lawsuit. So, again, I'm hoping to be a thorn in his side until there's some accountability.

– Mac Isaac

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was over here, I turned around the light was red, and the truck got impatient for whatever reason and charged into the crowd, there’s at least three people, I look over I see people trying to push the truck back, and I just instantly got mad and ran over and tried to stop the truck. I tried to stop him, he grabbed (and) ripped my sign, and push me down drove off and that was it.

– Alexis Russell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It’s absolutely fantastic to be back. I’ve genuinely missed this so much, i have been getting a little bit impatient the last two or three months, getting ready to play.

– Ash Barty

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

– ― Marilyn Monroe

added by bjamila90
3 years ago

One has to remember that Silicon Valley, even biotech, they are very impatient. But we saw with Theranos that [ public health ] is a little more complicated.

– Anat Admati

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We can not be the United States' junior partner, i'm impatient for European solutions.

– French President Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm impatient for European solutions.

– French President Emmanuel Macron

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

My goal was to get the first place twice in a row... so I became a little bit impatient because of my first mistake in the Axel. But I was able to recalculate and reassemble the structure of my performance, i tried to switch my mind and focus on the next element right away after my mistake. It was good experience for me to prepare for the next competition.

– Rika Kihira

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I was very impatient. In a way, also was maybe paying attention to it too much, to the Grand Slams, i was just playing better tennis at the other tournaments. At Madrid, Rome, other Masters, the World Tour Finals.

– Alexander Zverev

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Ben Platt and Jessica Lange have such a strong friendship and deep knowledge of the other, so it was very easy, i can be very impatient with acting these days, and Ben Platt was really good at wrangling that impatient side.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I know that the people are impatient and want fast answers but fast answers are often the wrong answers.

– Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Sipila is rather impatient, he isn't used to long negotiations with the unions, for example, which is the custom in Finnish politics. He leads with a company executive style, moving ahead quickly.

– Ilkka Ruostetsaari

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I wish I could tell you I had a magical formula for how to end racism. It's gone on in this country for before it was America, let me just say this, because I'm older than you: You're impatient, and you should be impatient. But if we were standing here 30 years ago and somebody said, 'You know, I think in 2008, the United States of America will elect an African-American president,' you know what people in this room would've said? They would've said, 'You are crazy. That will never happen because America has too much racist baggage.' But it happened. So, I guess you're right to be impatient, but we have made progress in this country. Not enough.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When students become impatient because of the long queue, I tell them to consider this a preview of Beijing's traffic jams, i tell them, you have to remain calm and patient.

– Geng Guizhi

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He is often impatient with our sluggish government bureaucracy, can at times be very hands-on in resolving issues and problems that are brought to his personal attention, and is always mindful that we are public servants, ali works hard to do the right thing, and never acts, in my observation, for reasons of personal advancement or aggrandizement.

– Jeh Johnson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

People who are aware of what education systems are like in other parts of the world are becoming increasingly impatient with the Chinese education system, it has an enormous emphasis on rote learning, classes can spend ludicrous amounts of time repeating the same things again and again, it often doesn't value creativity.

– Michel Hockx

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

– Eric Temple Bell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.

– James Goldsmith

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He who is not impatient is not in love.

– Italian Proverb

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection.

– Herbert Hensley Henson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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