Quotes About Urgency

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

What is> forbidden had better be done pretty quickly.

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work. – John 9:4

Cornerstone No. 3 is the Mortality Theory, which states: Given that your time on earth is limited, it makes good sense to aim high and move fast.

when Satan was training three apprentice devils. He asked the first one how he proposed to deceive people. "I will tell them there is no God." "That will never work," Satan replied, "for everyone knows there is a God." The second one volunteered that he would tell people there is no hell. "That won't work, either. Everyone knows there must be a hell." Then the third apprentice devil spoke up. "I will tell them there is no hurry.

Keep your voice down!' I warned. 'The house is asleep.' 'Come quick,' he repeated, though in a lower tone. 'And bring gun.' 'Why?

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.

Also," droned Helen, "Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too." The printout

who could scarcely remember to put one foot in front of the other when she walked; with the sudden, brutal urgency of a long and terrible wait ended.

There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead.

If everything's under control, you're going too slow.

Tomorrow Is a Bonus, Not a Right. Postpone not your heroism and never delay your peacefulness. Your life can fall apart within an hour.

Why postpone what you can do today to some time off in the distance? Why put off playing your greatest game as a human being to some point in the future?

deja de obrar como si te quedaran quinientos años de vida.

ve?ina ljudi živi kao da je pred njima cijela vje?nost. Uskra?ujemo si svoje strasti i odga?amo svoje snove. No, život je zapravo krhak dar koji valja živjeti odmah. Nitko od nas ne zna koliko mu je dana preostalo. U to možeš biti siguran.

You making haste haste on decay...

tightened his gut and sent him to the border of craving. Soon she'd leave Niroli; until she did, he had to keep this urgent appetite

Think as if your life depended on it.

The pursuit of absolute or ideal beauty may distract us from the more urgent business of getting things right. It is well and good for philosophers, poets and theologians to point towards beauty in its highest form. But for most of us it is far more important to achieve order in the things surrounding us, and to ensure that the eyes, the ears and the sense of fittingness are not repeatedly offended.

In public exigencies, there is hardly anything more prejudicial than excessive caution, timidity and dilatoriness, as there is nothing more beneficial than vigour, enterprise and expedition.

He believed there was a time to think and then a time to act.

About to enter into his second marriage, Bill must have been drastically scaling back on first-family expenditures, albeit without disclosing the reason for the sudden urgency.