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Letter "I" » impatient of
«Change is not a process for the impatient.»
«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.»
Author: Hesiod
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, discrete, elders, exceedingly, frivolous, Future of, impatient, impatient of, reckless, respectful, restraint
«One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.»
Author: Rodney Collin
| Keywords:
at the same time, impatience, impatient, impatient of, One Power, solely
«He who is not impatient is not in love»
«Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.»
«Be not impatient in delay,But wait as one who understands;When spirit rises and commands,The gods are ready to obey.»
«People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
impatient, impatient of, spread, spread out
«There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
impatient, impatient of, inferiority, recompense
«They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
association, captious, fretful, impatient of, maxims, morose, negligence, nod, practices, tenacious, unlimited
«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 beau»
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