Quotes About Urgency

When all else fails: explosions.

I don't like keeping her in the dark," Jace said. "We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?" Jace gave him a look. "Two weeks ago you were dead." "Well, I wasn't suggesting two weeks," said Sebastian. "That would be insane.

Hurry up, mundie boy, we've got work to do.

Jace: 'I don't like keeping her in the dark.' Sebastian: 'We'll tell her in a week. What difference does a week make?' Jace: 'Two weeks ago you were dead.' Sebastian: 'Well, I wasn't suggesting two weeks. That would be insane.

As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.

drive like hell was chasing you.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

Simon I've been trying to call you, but it seems like your phone is turned off. I don't know where you are right now. I don't know if Clary's already told you what happened tonight. But I have to go to Magnus's and I'd really like you to be there. I'm scared for my brother. I never ask you for anything, Simon, but I'm asking you now. Please come. Isabelle. Simon let the letter fall from his hand. He was out of the apartment and on his way down the steps before it had even hit the floor.

Who needs a lifetime?

Why was she in such a rush to tell him that?

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

Whether you need to make a call or answer one,don't put your passions on hold.

The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

Our culture has created a sense of urgency and expectation that's hard to shake.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine

What's left undone today, tomorrow will not do." Faust

No todo lo que grita más fuerte es lo más perentorio.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Necessity is the mother of not only invention but death.

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

He hated the oblivion of sleep. There was too much to do, too much of life to live. He grudged every moment of life sleep robbed him of, and before the clock had ceased its clattering he was head and ears in the washbasin and thrilling to the cold bite of the water.

the time it took to brush away one tear could mean the difference between saving a soldier or laying him out after death.