Quotes About Urgency

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

Joshua didn't say choose you next year whom you will serve; he spoke of "this day," while there is still daylight and before the darkness becomes more and more normal.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

There is no avoidance in delay.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

Um, dad?" I called "How's it going?" "Percy!" Annabeth whispered. "We're in a hurry!

Dad!" he shouted, loud enough to make my ears ring. "Dad! You need to get down here!" (Derek) Chloe held open the door and whispered to me, "I could say he's not always like this, but I'd be lying.

If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

The living are more demanding; the dead can wait.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? If not this way, how? If not now, when?

it is urgent that my chemical alter ego, so in love with digressions, get back on the rails, which is that of fornicating with matter in order to support myself

Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out! Get me out!

Ahh . . . maybe we should be going," Shane said. "Ditch the shoes, Eve. We'll be running now." "I love these shoes!" "More than your circulatory system?" Eve silently kicked off the stilettos and backed up.

You know it's desperate, she said. Shane is going to the library.

We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.