Quotes About Urgency

My history and civilization are literally melting; everyone knows.

So what. I'd make up whatever I lacked in other ways. Quickly. Fast, fast. Gimme my cake. It was time to fuck.

One of my weaknesses is impatience. I just have this aching need to get great things done. Can't stand slow change.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

I think that college football is still a sport where fans really feel urgency every week.

If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

That's one thing I never had to do on a Mike Bay set is sit around and pontificate about the next scene; there's no time for it. You're already in the next scene.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.

Don't ever postpone things - that was very clear in our family.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

So many of us who've been thinking about the ecological crisis have had this horrible creeping feeling, like nothing was getting done and it was getting worse.

I had a scene where the chair was meant to slide off the table, but do you think it would slide off? No. We were running out of time and we had to get these scenes done urgently.

I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it's serious stuff.

Basketball is a short period of time, and you've got to take advantage of it.

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.

I hurt like I just climbed out of a cement mixer, and the shot that grazed my side burns like hell. But I don't have time to whine right now.

Life will cook; the seas will rise. The planet's lungs will be ripped out. And the law will let this happen, because harm was never imminent enough. Imminent, at the speed of people, is too late. The law must judge imminent at the speed of trees.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

We've been driving all night. We've been driving a long time. We want to stop. We can't.

Rose. Roza. Open your eyes." I've never heard heard his voice so strained, so frantic. "Don't go to sleep on me. Not yet.