Quotes About Imperative

Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.

Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war.

I probably should work harder on relationships, but I don't, and there's not the same kind of imperative as when you have all the right equipment to make a human being together.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

We strive for equality and equality in mental health matters as much as anything else. I see it as an imperative, not a choice.

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.

The most important imperative to be questioned is the one that tells you to go the the art supply store to be a painter.

Can we move this conversation along, old chap? I'm getting frightfully tired of

We served the imperative of history as specks of dust in the whirlwind and were privileged to participate in the end of our world.

Don't forget to put some pressure on addressing the imperative issues that can benefit the world.

Nobody had warned her that this would happen during middle age: these sudden, wildly inappropriate waves of desire for young men, with no biological imperative whatsoever. Maybe this was what men felt like all their lives? No wonder the poor things had to pay out all that money in lawsuits.

Nobody had warned her that this would happen during middle age: these sudden, wildly inappropriate waves of desire for young men, with no biological imperative whatsoever.

Rubber gloves," I said, and my impatience burst. "Come on, open it up." He looked at me as if I had suggested doing something indecent. "Open it!" I said. Vince

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without." George

She stared up at him, at this man-she-knew-who-was-a-stranger, this person who'd risked everything in his world to kidnap another human so he could thrust away like a zoo monkey whenever he wanted. This loser had made a biological act so imperative that he was willing to go to prison to feel the same relief he could get with his own hand.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.

But this had happened to me more than once in my life: I had refused to allow convention to determine my conduct, only to learn, after I'd gone my own way, that my bedrock feelings were sometimes more conventional than my sense of unswerving moral imperative.

Immanuel Kant" "Noch wal

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now. Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.

Could we get on with this? I have a case waiting." Annette's brows rose. "Jane, you and I both deal with the dead. You're a homicide detective—any case you have can just keep waiting. Not like the guy will get any deader.