Quotes About Urgency

Mothers are urgently trying to tell something to their daughters, and this urgency is precisely what repels their daughters, forcing them to turn away. Mothers are left stranded, madly holding a lump of London clay, some grass, some white tubers, a dandelion, a fat worm passing the world through itself.

The planet is finished with us, at this point -

It's a delusional painter who finishes a canvas at two o'clock and expects radical societal transformation by four. Even when artists write manifestos, they are (hopefully) aware that their exigent tone is, finally, borrowed, only echoing in mimicking the urgency of the guerrilla's demands, or the activist's protest, rather than truly enacting. The people sometimes demand change.

dar câteva zile mai târziu nu s-a mai preocupat de chestiunea asta, fiindc? grijile nu se pot purta necontenit, întotdeauna ne ocup?m numai de grijile cele mai urgente È™i cele mai prezente, umbl?m prin lume cu un p?ianjen uriaÈ™ pe cap È™i nu È™tim c? e acolo.

I almost never write because I want something from my audience. Almost everything I've ever written, I've written because I feel like I have to write this or I'll die. Like, this has to come out of me.

Busy idleness urges us on

Desperate affairs require desperate remedies.

Three blasts upon the bugle horn I will blow in my hour of need; then come quickly, for I shall want your aid.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times that I have heard a sermon on the meaning of religion, of Christianity, to the man who stands with his back against the wall. It is urgent that my meaning be crystal clear. The masses of men live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them?

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Ya dont want yadinner taget cold, doya?

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well as do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before" John Owen

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

The bomb lives only as it is falling.

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.

Antes de que el antídoto llegue de Iraq, el hombre con la picadura de serpiente habrá muerto.

don't wait for the man standing in the snow to cut off his arm help him now

THE OVERDWELLERS CALL FOR MANNA! QUICK, THE GRANOLA BARS!

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

I had a gut feeling that this might be one of those cases we were waiting for. I immediately made the necessary arrangements and less than ninety minutes later a private jet was waiting on the tarmac at McCarran Airport to whisk us to northern Utah. No other group of scientists investigating the paranormal had a private jet at their disposal. Most of them couldn't even afford to rent a car for the weekend.

My biggest fear is not getting done that which must be done before my short life ends.

Get up," she said. "Get up, my lord. If you do not have long, there is still much to do. You must not waste another day, another morning! Take hold of your life with both hands and crush it to you, my lord. You will not have another in this world.