Quotes About Urgency

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

Do not sit idle, for indeed death is seeking you

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

The trouble is you think you have time.

Act quickly, think slowly.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

when someone says "please pray for me," they are not just saying "let's have lunch sometime." They are issuing an invitation into the depths of their lives and their humanity- and often with some urgency. And worry is not a substitute for prayer. Worry is a starting place, but not a staying place. Worry invites me into prayer. As a staying place, worry can be self-indulgent, paralyzing, draining, and controlling. When I take worry into prayer, it doesn't disappear, but it becomes smaller.

God, they'd barely begun and she didn't know how much more she could stand before the lust-drunk cells in her body rocketed over the edge. Starting

There is no day or night in a hospital, there is only now.

Hurry up please its time.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

I felt different, changing. Like today was my day, if I could just figure out how. Like danger, but my danger, sweet tricky urgent luck, tumbling through the air, heads or tails?

Zoe dropped the towel back onto the floor, glancing at the bedroom clock: 3:52. Twenty-three minutes

You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.

Drop everything now / Meet me in the pouring rain

What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?

The existence of free will meant that we couldn't know the future. And we knew free will existed because we had direct experience of it. Volition was an intrinsic part of consciousness. Or was it? What if the experience of knowing the future changed a person? What if it evoked a sense of urgency, a sense of obligation to act precisely as she knew she would?

In business, speed is everything.

I've got 911 on speed dial.

I learned to value speed in everything I do.