Quotes About Urgency

What's purple mean?" Adrian put his hand on the door. "Gotta go, Sage. Dont want to keep Dorothy waiting

We'd get one precious hour of making out or talking—usually making out, made more frantic by the pressure bearing down on us—and

There is no task as urgent for us as to learn daily how to die, but our knowledge of death is not increased by the renunciation of life; only the ripe fruit of the here and now that has been seized and bitten will spread its indescribable taste in us.

Without the assumption that an advantage will be long-lived, the urgency of an organization to move quickly increases.

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

Step up to red alert. Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb. - Rimmer & Kryten, Red Dwarf

doing something constructive at once is better than figuring out the best thing to do hours later.

It is an unwritten law of the Navy that facilities must always be locked when they are most needed.

seconds are jewels beyond price in combat.

Pearl eyed a man and woman walking by in funny hats. Her whole body stiffened with the desire to bark at them. Mine too. But we had both been urged repeatedly not to, and we were

You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not the movies. You're in a crisis situation, you got about a half second to do what needs to be done. Your

But she didn't listen, she was in the bathroom, she was getting dressed, she was putting on make-up, she was getting ready. Getting ready.

She spoke in a fast rush. "Can't talk. Meet me in forty minutes. Say where." Forty minutes. Not half an hour or an hour. Forty. Like we were Ukrainian spies. We

Stone checked his watch. Tempus fugit. "Gotta

If one man lives as though he would never die and another man lives as though he might die tomorrow, would either one wear a wristwatch?

Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark.

Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency?

A sense of urgency comes from a powerful connection to the present

As a warrior in life, you must turn this dynamic around: make the thought of death something not to escape but to embrace. Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency?

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Sir!" Laszlo's voice rose an octave. He twirled a button with his fingers. "There isn't enough time for—for two treatments. You must decide between your—your tooth or your…" With a grimace, he glanced at Roman's swollen jeans. My fang or my yang? The latter strained against his zipper, as if it wanted to leap out and shoot its mouth off. Pick me, pick me!

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.

Un doigt coupé afin de sauver une main.