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Quotes About Urgency

Once you've been taken, you usually have twenty-four hours left to live.
~ Edward Bloor
The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The past has all the time in the world. It's only the future which is running out.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
If we look only at God's love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God's justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in terror-fear, always feeling guilty and waiting for punishment.
~ Edward T. Welch
Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.
~ Edwidge Danticat
This is life. It's not a dress rehearsal. If we don't do this now, we may as well start planning our own funerals.
~ Alastair Reynolds
miras como yo: con los ojos y con las manos y con el sexo y con el alma mientras la memoria hecha de piel de tambor bate ritmos cada vez más urgentes, que en verdad son llamadas, que en verdad son plegarias tácitas hechas de un silencio alborotado en donde las cosas corren y mi amor corre y todo en mí es un agua precipitada, absolutamente loca y ardiente.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
La verdad. Qué cierto es eso de que cuando llevamos mucho tiempo buscando la verdad, el día que por fin la descubrimos llega lo más difícil. ¿Qué hacer con ella? Lo curioso no es tanto haberla tenido delante de nuestros ojos todo el tiempo y no haber sabido verla hasta el último momento. Lo realmente curioso es que cuando por fin aparece, la verdad no permite largos plazos. Exige actuar, normalmente con urgencia.
~ Alejandro Palomas
Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Steve, are you alright. I have asked for tomorrow because of you. Your health is not good," said Notch. "My health is Ok. I get blackouts once in a while, but other than that I am fine. I am ready to go. We can begin right now. If we wait too long, my health may worsen," said Steve. "Alright, as you think appropriate. We will begin right away. Take all your necessary belongings," said Notch.
~ Alex Anderson
When you've found out that the person you love loves you, you can't delay. You have to hurry.
~ Alex Flinn
There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us.
~ Alex Kotlowitz
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
~ Alexandra Fuller
I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.
~ Jack Lew
I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.
~ Rick Larsen
I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
~ Tom Waits
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
~ Bono
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
~ Chadwick Boseman
I think Australia is pretty much living the last day on Earth in a lot of ways.
~ Nathan Phillips
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.
~ Gerald R. Ford
As the urgency of the threat presented by Islamic extremism grows, we cannot afford to have the commander-in-chief issue executive orders in direct contravention of laws that he enacted.
~ Mike Pompeo
We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.
~ London Breed
Many people say that this is not an easy issue, we cannot just say that this is how it is, it's not black and white. But I say that this is black and white. Either we stop the emissions or we don't. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.
~ Greta Thunburg