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Quotes About Urgency

Don't spend your whole life waiting for someday to come," he'd told Gigi on that trip. "You never know when you're going to run out of time.
~ Unknown
I must eat," said Amy. "Brooke, go tell Mum we have to eat something now because you're getting a migraine." "You tell her you have to eat because you're having a panic attack," retorted Brooke. "Tell her Logan is hungry," said Troy. "She won't want Logan to be hungry." "I told her I was hungry an hour ago," said Logan.
~ Liane Moriarty
Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.
~ Liane Moriarty
the screen. "Let me leave you with these words: 'Ardently do today what must be done. Who knows? Tomorrow death comes.' The Buddha." She
~ Liane Moriarty
Time to do the thing, thats word to your wrist watch.
~ Lil Wayne
And yet she wrote with an urgency most of us felt but did not have the courage to reveal, because we were too beholden to the traditions of the old sciences. For so long I'd felt that what I'd been trained to do in academic writing was to press my nose to the ground, and here was Nell Stone with her head raised and swiveling in all directions.
~ Lily King
When I get out of the car I'm so horny I can barely walk up the driveway.
~ Lily King
If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.
~ Linda Barnes
Tonight, I need him. I need him with every cell in my body. I need him on so many levels I couldn't begin to sort through them or make sense of any of it. I need him with an urgency that scares me, because control is the one thing I will never relinquish, even to him.
~ Linda Castillo
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
~ Unknown
When someone needs help, that's the time to help. Not the next day. Not when it's safe.
~ Unknown
Kiss me," she said urgently. Sam's eyes flickered with mild surprise. "Right now?" "Yes." "What kind of kiss?" "What do you mean, what kind of kiss? Just a regular kiss." "A friendly kiss, or a romantic kiss? Are we supposed to be going out together, or—" "Oh, for heaven's sake, " she exclaimed, and pulled his head down to hers.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It has to be now," he insisted, a flick of amusement in his voice. He nudged his burgeoning loins against her. "After all, you can't allow me to go around like this all day." "From what I've learned so far, this is your natural condition," came her pert reply.
~ Lisa Kleypas
So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency.
~ Todd Gitlin
Life is a panic in a theatre on fire. - Jean-Paul Sartre
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If you can screw up the case in the first few vital hours, it saves time and paperwork later.
~ Jeff Lindsay
a man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Alas," Brian said, "I really do have to leave posthaste.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Get your stuff," he said, hurrying past. "We got a wild one." Robert turned to watch him go, and his air of relaxed confidence seemed to drain out and puddle at his feet. "Is that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Does he mean, um—" "It's probably nothing," I said. "Just a routine machete beheading or something." Chase goggled at me for a moment. Then he turned pale, gulped, and finally nodded. "Okay," he said.
~ Jeff Lindsay
And a man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches.
~ Jeff Lindsay
He didn't want to die on Monday. It seemed common.
~ Jeffery Deaver
We don't have enough time to move fast
~ Jeffery Deaver
You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother——you get the picture——reaming their——you get the rest of the picture.
~ Jeffery Deaver
You do what you think is best, Jim," Mason said in a taut voice, "but I don't think we have time for any more searches. There's a lot of territory out there. We've got to get after that boy and get after him fast." But it was Lincoln Rhyme who responded. Eyes on the map, at Location G-10, Blackwater Landing, the last place anyone had seen Lydia Johansson alive, he said, "We don't have enough time to move fast.
~ Jeffery Deaver