Quotes About Imperative

Hmph." I pushed the button a couple more times, trying to hurry the elevator along. "Oh, yeah, that's going to do some good. Everyone knows an elevator doesn't shift into second until you really lean on the call button." I pressed it another fifteen times, giving Jim a triumphant smile when the green light lit above the door. "Ha! See? It does too work—oh, sorry. Didn't mean to step on your foot.

Imagination it is which builds bridges, and cities, and empires. The beasts know it not ... while to one in a hundred thousand of earth's dominant race it is given as a gift from heaven that man may not perish from the earth.

Here we meet the familiar Pauline tension between the indicative and the imperative.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

all duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.

Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.

Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative.

When necessity speaks, it demands.

It really annoys me when the light turns green, and you're behind somebody, and they're just sitting there looking at the light for about 15, 20 seconds.

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

must double down on making yourself an absolutely essential piece of your firm's success. That should be your goal at any time, but in these times of economic stress it is imperative. It is how you keep moving forward in a very competitive job market.

I absolutely loathe adverts. I won't go into the cinema until 20 minutes after the film is due to start because there are so many.

I believe that the United States has a moral and economic imperative to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

He believed in mission. But . . . he did not believe in it as an intellectual imperative, or even as a professional standard. Mission . . . was an abstract notion that took meaning in concrete situations.

Knowledge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

It is perhaps difficult to understand if you have not had children yourself. The biological imperative of the parent is to protect the child, and when that is impossible it feels like a failure, whatever the circumstances. It is a complicated feeling to live with for the rest of your life.

Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.

Every child is occasionally out-of-sync. Careful diagnosis is imperative to determine which symptoms are related to sensory processing problems, and which are not.

Google offers to its "customers" is free. Internet searches are free. Email is free. The vast resources of the data centers, costing Google an estimated thirty billion dollars to build, are provided essentially for free. Free is not by accident. If your business plan is to have access to the data of the entire world, then free is an imperative.

adds a strong imperative to act upon what has happened, a continuing invitation in which the one who is healed is meant to participate. Jesus instructs the healed one to go forth with some special intent, made possible by the healing.

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it. Then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.