Quotes About Urgency

Time to shit or get off the pot.

the open! So go for it! Jump on it! Just gobble it right up! "I don't know," he said. "We need to talk about it," she said. But there was no more talking to be done, not then, because the buzzer from the lobby started up an insistent squawk, like somebody was down there on the street leaning on the button. Jodie stood

screaming at myself to listen to what I'd learned through thirteen hard years. The shorter the time, the cooler you've got to be. If you've only got one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning. Or because you ran out of blood sugar and got sick and dizzy in the small hours of the morning. So I forced the eggs down and drank

She pressed buttons and waited for answering beeps, and then she said, "I want the personnel jacket for U.S. Army Private First Class Wiley, first name unknown, currently four months absent without leave from an air defense unit in Germany. To me in Hamburg, seriously fast." Then she clicked off. The National Security Council. The keys to the kingdom. There was a knock at the door. For

The shorter the time, the cooler you have got to be. If you've got only one shot, you've got to make it count. You can't afford to miss because you screwed up the planning.

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap – FIX IT!!!

Cellad?n fikri ÅŸöyleydi: Gövdesi olmayan bir kafa kesilemezdi, zaten daha önce böyle bir ÅŸey yapmak zorunda kalmam??t? ve bu yaÅŸtan sonra da yapmaya niyeti yoktu. Kral'?n fikri de ÅŸöyleydi: Kafas? olan her ÅŸeyin kafas? kesilebilirdi ve bu konuda daha fazla saçmalaman?n anlam? yoktu. Kraliçe'nin fikri ise ÅŸöyleydi: EÄŸer bir dakika içinde bir sonuca var?lmazsa, oradaki herkesin kafas? kesilecekti.

Why, Mary Ann, what ARE you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It's all we really get, she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she'd ever said.

Hurry, Hector urged, and his voice changed as his power surged, his tone and cadence sliding into the rhythm that said he was seeing the future. Battle is in the air. I smell it. I can almost touch it. Death is coming Death is coming for us. With a click, the call disconnected.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

The fate of the world rests on this one thing: our capacity to actualize our spiritual potential, and quickly.

When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.

I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.