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Quotes About Urgency

Doch Warten war ein Luxus, den er sich nicht mehr leisten konnte.
~ Thomas Mullen
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
~ Thomas Paine
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
~ Thomas Paine
will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.
~ Thomas Paine
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When
~ Thomas Paine
Jane reached Western New York in the dark. It had been a seven-hour drive, but she had stopped for meals and breaks, and then had taken time to sleep for two hours at a rest stop. The urgency she had been feeling since the night the ancient woman had come to her in her dream seemed to burn in her until she had worn herself out. Now she was feeling stronger.
~ Thomas Perry
Having these negative imprints on my mental continuum is unbearable. "It's as if I've swallowed a lethal poison. I must practice the antidote right away and purify all this negative karma immediately, without a second's delay." In this way, generate strong feelings of urgency and regret.
~ Thubten Zopa
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
~ Thurgood Marshall
It's about goddamn time! I've been sending you telepathic messages for ten minutes!
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.
~ Shaun Alexander
When you're boiling in oil, in the middle of a crisis, the challenges are so consuming there is no time for anything else.
~ Henry Paulson
None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
~ Jack Kevorkian
There's nothing like desperation to sharpen your sense of focus.
~ Thomas Newman
It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.
~ Brian Ortega
I've taken fights on one-day notice.
~ T.J. Dillashaw
To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.
~ Greta Thunburg
The challenge lies in the fact that the planet has limited time. Be it climate change or nuclear fallout, there is very little time. You have to pick your cause.
~ Anne Waldman
Luckily with '24,' for the most part, each moment is so intense, and your objective is all about that moment right then.
~ Annie Wersching
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
~ Og Mandino
El éxito no esperará. Si demoro, será como una novia que se casará con otro y la perderé para siempre. Ahora es el momento oportuno, éste es el lugar, yo soy el hombre. Procederé ahora mismo.
~ Og Mandino
Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live," Marcus Aurelius
~ Og Mandino
Love is the urgency to hold fast to another and to be together in the same place. It's the desire to keep the world out by embracing another. It is the yearning to find a safe harbor for the human soul.
~ Orhan Pamuk
woe to him who stops to tie his shoestring?
~ Orison Swett Marden
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
~ Oscar Wilde