Quotes About Urgency

Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.

In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

The urgent can drown out the important.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so nobody could see me.

put the car in "d" set the compass to "n" and get the "f"out of there

All life is an emergency.

We are impatient for results.

Kalau kau mulai menunda hal-hal yang ingin kau lakukan untuk hari lain, hari esok itu tak pernah datang

But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw—one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.

El tiempo, ay, daba prisa a los hombres.

Jill, the time's come. They're going to close us down. Tell all the Heads of Section that Christabel is now in operation.

You would have thought, listening to my bowdlerized version of what was a tepid enough little life history, that rather than having received a warm and gracious letter from the famous writer inviting me to come and spend a pleasant evening in his house, I had made this journey to plead a matter of utmost personal urgency before the most stringent of inquisitors, and that if I made one wrong move, something of immeasurable value to me would be lost forever.

Do you happen to know when the apothecary will be arriving? We have an injured brother and are in need of herbs to reduce his fever. You're the one who'll need the apothecary! I have already said that I need the apothecary. Shall I speak more slowly?

No one was going to be looking for us; they were all too busy with more serious problems.

Surely I am coming quickly" (Revelation 22:20). The more aware we are of His impending return, the more motivated we'll be in our work for Him in these last days.

I gotta go. The gingerbread men are on fire.

I don't know where I am, Evan. I'm seeing red everywhere. It's just...everywhere. I am underwater right now. You don't understand. I'm underwater. I need a gun. Evan? I need-

I]n the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious bullshit and go straight to firearms.

An Evangelical who thinks the world is ending is called a religious fanatic; a liberal who thinks so is called an environmentalist."—Dennis Prager * Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind.

Wants to set the world on fire, and if it can't happen by tomorrow morning at nine a.m., then life's just unfair and hardly worth living.

high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.