Quotes About Urgency

When they torpedo the troopship," he shouted, " you can't stand around admiring the view. Jump!

when faced with desperate patients, doctors often do not have the heart—or, more accurately, they have too much heart—to do nothing.

I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Write as though your life depends on it, as good writing depends on your life.

There is no time in this world to take your time, there is only success and failure.

Take advantage of time before time takes advantage of you.

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand...and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Sometimes in life we just have to take many steps at the same time because life is moving forward so fast and we got left behind if we keep on taking one step at a time.

Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now.

Wahrheit, das ist höchster Wert nicht nur in der Wissenschaft, sondern noch viel mehr und viel dringlicher in der Religion, auf die wir ja unser Leben begründen wollen.

Es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, daß gerade Christen und Theologen ihre Arbeit oft für so wichtig und dringlich halten, daß sie sich darin durch nichts unterbrechen lassen wollen. Sie meinen damit einen Dienst zu tun, und verachten dabei den ›krummen und doch geraden Weg‹ Gottes.

Every day counts.

but at this period of history there are tasks more urgent than the manipulation of words in a harmonious manner.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

Might be worth it. I'm so goddamn horny the crack of dawn ain't safe.

You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.

No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.