Quotes About Urgency

For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time. The rapidity of change and the speed with which new situations are created follow the impetuous and heedless pace of man rather than the deliberate pace of nature.

The sun was hardly risen, but already time was running out.

He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us.

With a cry of alarm, he bolted to the bathroom and made it with not a second to spare. He seemed to be on the throne long enough to have witnessed the rise and fall of an empire.

she wants to put a few hundred more miles between them and Ringrock as fast as she can

can protect you, but we have to move fast.

My, my, will you look at the time?" Bailey muttered, staring down at her watch. It was half-past frustration and thirty minutes to despair. The only way she could easily extricate herself from this mess was to leave—now.

I'm late," she told him.

Norah, her younger sister, had managed to call her in Italy nearly a week ago about their father's heart attack. The connection had been bad and she'd had difficulty hearing, but Norah's sense of urgency had come clearly over the wire. Their father was gravely ill, and Steffie needed to hurry home—something that turned out to be much easier said than done.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Codeine...bourbon... (Tallulah Bankhead's last coherent words).

With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important.

You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy, dubious as its moral underpinning might be

I don't hold wi' rape, and we've not the time for it, anyway." I was pleased to hear this statement of policy

When?" "Now," he said, and took my elbow. "There is no time to lose.

Come on!" he said, grunting as he shifted the Chinaman's slippery form for a better grip. "They'll be after us any moment!

prejuicio social es un fuerza poderosa, pero se desarma ante la competencia, sobre todo cuando la demanda es urgente y la habilidad no abunda.

Ye wouldna linger to smell flowers when ye think your shit might turn to ice before ye've got it all the way out.

Do it, I thought, in an agony of apprehension. For God's sake, do it now and don't be gentle!

Social prejudice is a strong force, but no match for simple competence when skill is in urgent demand and short supply.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

You don't have time to dwell on what is going on in the games.