Quotes About Urgency

Live as if you'd drop dead in 10 seconds! - Granger Fahrenheit 451

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

I believe that if you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

she had to think about—whatever it was, she had to think about—something urgent and essential in her own life that was a million pixels swirling in a thunder-cloud about to burst.

Death, I now see, may not come when I am 85 and weary, or after I have solved all my problems or met all my deadlines. It will come whenever it damn well pleases; all I can control is the time between. So when I see something I want, I grab it. If the tulips are particularly yellow, I buy them.

Sto cominciando a pagare. E' meglio iniziare presto, per finire in fretta.

He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?

The health of the economy was understood to be more valuable and urgent than the health of the people. ... But the transposition of health onto the economy did not just transfer a human attribute to the markets; it literally drained health from living bodies to establish health for the economy. That has been a deadly form of displacement and inversion within the logic of capitalism that comes to the fore within pandemic times.

We all have urgent matters pending, one of the members growled. What the hell is Nick's problem that he can't be here? He said it's a labor relations problem. That's no excuse! another member exploded. We all have labor relations problems. I reminded Nick of that, the chairman replied. What did he say? He said that nobody has a labor relations problem like his.

Live for the moment. There might be no tomorrow. And even if there is, nobody really gives a damn.

After drinking eight cups in a row, then walking home from school, then waiting for the elevator, then digging out my key and unlocking the door to our apartment, then dashing down the hall to the bathroom, I really had to pee. I mean, really. But Fudge was already in there, sitting on the toilet, turning the pages of Arthur the Anteater.

Remember this, Precious Child … nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held in the now, either an urgent now or an eternal now.

Si el amor teórico y celestial es ilimitado y no conoce condiciones, el amor terrenal las necesita, y con urgencia.

But now everything's gone bad,and I only know one thing: I have six days. Six days to figure out who I really am.

Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.

We all live as if we are going to live forever. When you know you won't, life looks different.

Max clapped his hands. "Go, go, go!

Mit einem Schrei, der aus dem Thierreich zu stammen schien, stürzten sich Zuckriegel und Steinbüchse auf den Kelten und griffen zu. Einen Schrei stieß aber auch das Mädchen vom Rudolfsthurm aus: »Hilfe! Räuber! Diebe! Heilige Jungfrau! Maria und Joseph! Maxerl! Herr Inspector! Franzel! Hilfe um Gott und Jesu, s' gehet mit's G'ripp durch!«

Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.

Gabriel hurried upstairs and collected a prepacked suitcase with three days' worth of clothing and kit. Thirty minutes later he carried the bag up the airstair of his Gulfstream jet. It departed Ben Gurion Airport at 7:05 a.m., bound for the flashing red warning light once known as the world's beacon of democracy.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

David Platt states, It makes little sense for us to keep asking, "What do you want me to do, God?" the answer is clear. The will of God is for you and me to give our lives urgently and recklessly to make the gospel and glory of God known among all peoples.

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. —George S. Patton