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Quotes About Urgency

Goodness! Golly! Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!
~ Lemony Snicket
Troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, and that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is true there are more important things than dinner, but it is difficult to keep those things in mind when you haven't had dinner.
~ Lemony Snicket
When one's stomach is as fluttery as all that, it is nice to take a short break to lie down and perhaps sip a fizzy beverage, but there was no time for such things.
~ Lemony Snicket
Velocity!" Sunny shrieked. I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried.
~ Lemony Snicket
I know we have to hurry!" Klaus cried. "I'm moving these noodles as quickly as I can!
~ Lemony Snicket
What can I do?" Klaus asked. "You can pray this works," Violet said, but the Baudelaire sisters were so quick with their tasks that there was no time for even the shortest of religious ceremonies.
~ Lemony Snicket
Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!
~ Lemony Snicket
B-R-B!" I screamed, which is faster to say than Be Right Back!
~ Lenore Look
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
~ Leo Durocher
there was a big difference between hurrying and not wasting any time. The man who hurried usually died. Tilghman
~ James Reasoner
Kiel pulled his arm out of Owen's grasp and stepped forward. Where is she? he shouted, angrier than Owen had ever seen him
~ james riley
The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.
~ James Thurber
I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to hurry them on. Near or far, the end is always in sight. We have no time to stand and stare. Make your choice, Fernanda.
~ Jan Siegel
It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
~ Jane Austen
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
~ Jane Austen
what must be at last had better be soon.
~ Jane Austen
Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
~ Jane Austen
Oh hang kitty; what has she to do with it? Come, be quick. Be quick. Where is your sash?
~ Jane Austen
How do we get people to heed the dire warnings of the people on the ground who have been fighting this danger for so long? How do we get them to take action?
~ Jane Goodall
Many people understand the dire state of the planet—but do nothing about it because they feel helpless and hopeless.
~ Jane Goodall
These are desparate times. - Stephanie Plum
~ Janet Evanovich
The clock on the dash told me I was seven minutes late, and the urge to scream told me I was home.
~ Janet Evanovich