Quotes About Urgency

None of us knows how long we have, maybe another month, maybe another fifty years _ I like living as if I only have that two days.

He called out to no one in particular, Fire in the Hole!

It seemed to him that there was some urgency in the air, but then he always felt like that in February: a sense of something breaking out through his skin.

Look! said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, Someone who cares!

Quickly, Holly, said Artemis urgently. Follow those bubbles. Holly opened the throttle. Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.

Holly: Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get twenty-four? Artemis: I don't think Opal pays much attention to laws.

Make it fast, you shower of stinking rabbit droppings, I've got a fresh blade that I'm just itching to test!

It was funny how quickly a person's priorities could change. This morning he had been worried about which loafers to wear with his suit, and now all he could think about was the fact that his dearest friend's life hung in the balance, And the balance was rapidly shifting.

Zevenenhalf uur om de wereld te redden. Is er niet een of andere wet die zegt dat we minstens vierentwintig uur de tijd krijgen? - Holly

SQUIB WOULD HAVE LIKED TO GET ON THE DRAGON SITUATION ASAFP, but there were things to do.

Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn't there some law that says we get at least twenty-four?

What? Now?' 'Yes. Now.' Kamar paced the tiny living room. 'That is crazy. Completely insane. Fowl cannot be here for a couple of days at the earliest. There's no need for us to spend two days breathing in that poison. What is the reasoning?' Mikhael extended the phone. 'You tell him. I'm sure the Menidzher will appreciate being told he is a madman.' Kamar

One discovers answers to problems only when one feels that they are burning and that it is a a matter of life and death to solve them. Is nothing is of burning interest, one's reason and one's critical faculty operate on a low level of activity; it appears then that one lacks the faculty to observe.

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

Right now, do you want to come up and... uhm... I´ve got movies! Or, uhm, a soda. Or... coffee. I´ve got coffee and biscotti! Or...." "Sex, Zach," Sean said soberly. "I think we can skip the preliminaries. We need to have sex.

Finger me?" he begged, breathlessly. "A little spit, a little poke-e-ta poke-e-ta? Please?

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

the emergency is already here, the cup of endurance fast running over – but the onrush of catastrophe does have a temporality of its own. It imposes tight constraints on those who want to fight.

If we cannot even get rid of the most preposterously unnecessary emissions, how are we going to begin moving towards zero?

David?" Dave had been home five minutes when he heard his mom come in the front door and call his name. He was upstairs. In the bathroom. She called again. "David, answer me!" To be more specific, Dave was sitting on the toilet. "DAVID! ANSWER ME!" Dave knew that tone of voice. He had to do something right away. So he reached over and banged on the inside of the bathroom door. It was the wrong move. His mom was up those front stairs and

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?