Quotes About Urgency

Never assume you've got a copious time- You haven't.

Oh, and Miss Himmelsteen, short of my wife and kids dead on the highway, hold all my calls. In fact, if my wife and kids are dead, well, they'll all be just as dead thirty minutes from now, so hold all my calls.

Pluck this little flower and take it. Delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. It may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am aware, and the time of offering go by. Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower in thy service and pluck it while there is time.

You'll have to go get laid by a random stranger." Bo pointed to the television. "Can I wait for a commercial or do I have to git-'er-done right now?" "You can wait.

I want to make love to you, and if you don't stop me now, that's exactly what's going to happen.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

I've got some advice for the young: If you've got anything you really want to do, don't wait until you're 93.

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early.

I realise that sometimes you have to make tough decisions and football doesn't wait for people.

One thing I have learned over the years, when you're trying to pursue a coach and there is a coach out there that you think is the right fit, you can't wait around. You have to act, you have to act quick because there are a lot of people looking for good coaches.

There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

You don't have the chance in a small business - when every dollar counts, every day - to make too many mistakes and recover from them, and you don't have the luxury of waiting to make the decision. You have to move quickly.

In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not justify torture. The United States must be held to a higher standard than our enemies, yet some of our actions did not clear that bar.

Wake up, Carolee, the plane is waiting for us, we have to get to the game.

I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.

Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away.

I always play every game like my back is against the wall, that this could be it.