Carrie Fisher Quotes

I need to develop some patience - immediately.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

No one wants to be patient. No one wants to wait for anything. They want it right now - that instant gratification.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if I'll get to the book. But I'm certainly excited about the day where I can't find the book, and I get to say, 'Where the hell is my anger management book?!'

America's greatest sin is the refusal to delay gratification.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

He who awaits much can expect little.

By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.

I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.

My biggest weakness is patience, wanting to see things happen too quickly or get changes in place right away. Not having the patience to let things develop.

Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.