Quotes About Urgency

Alexander Maclaren writes: "This man, before he was four-and-twenty hours a disciple, had made another. Some of you have been disciples for as many years, and have never even tried to make one."3

Scott woke up with a bad need to urinate. Lying motionless, he forced one eye open.

No matter what you do with the rest of your life, nothing will be as important to the future of the World as your work on this Project right now.

start working- rarely resting- seemingly driven by a fatalistic sense that work that has to be done was best done as quickly as possible.

What you can't afford to lose is precisely what the world robs you of. How it knew what you needed the most, just so it could deny you that very thing, was a question for philosophers. Answer it and you'd have the kind of book Tom Ford would've considered worth writing: urgent and new and absolutely necessary. To write it, though, you'd have to be on fire.

Can't you go faster?" Ashley pleaded. "Any faster, and we'll be the ones needing a rescue.

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

Run!" Piper said. "We are running!" Jason picked up the speed. "Run better!" Leo shouted.

Annabeth looked at me. We have to get out of here. You think I want to be in the girls' restroom? I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship. Smells bad, Tyson agreed. And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship.

We're burning," Sadie pointed out helpfully. "Noticed!" I yelled back.

sorry,no thanks,if i was going to die it could wait until tomorrow morning.

GO! Remember!

I just wish we could move faster.' He chin-pointed to Nico. 'I don't see how this kid is going to last one more jump. How many more will it take us to get home?

Sorry we're late," Jason said. "Is this the guy who needs killing?

She needed more time, there simply wasn't enough of it. This was the only way she could think of making it (setting her alarm five minutes earlier every day). Not making it exactly, if you could make it from scratch - brand new time- that would be fantastic.

you're doing the same thing I am, only more slowly, and less honestly. You drive a car; you use plastic products; you do whatever the hell you do knowing full well that it's contributing to the end of everyone, and a lot of other animals besides. So don't get all more-life-affirming-than-thou with me, missy, you're on your way out too. In a way, you could see me as he canary down a mine shaft, or maybe synecdoche, the small part representing the whole.

And this is a time to act, not wonder.

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

PICK PICK PICK QUICK QUICK QUICK.

If you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when? –Rabbi Hillel

The elemental human desire to add meaning and permanence to life-to avoid the fate rendered by Dante as no more memorial/ Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind - take on additional depth and urgency for those who have intense moods and brooding dispositions.

And it started to dawn on me, I suppose, that a lot of things I'd always assumed I'd plenty of time to get round to doing, I might now have to act on pretty soon or else let them go forever.

Even so, I believe there's still hope. I believe help might come from a place the adults haven't yet considered. But we need to do something now quickly.

We're going to be leaving here soon. It's not like a game any more. We've got to think carefully.