Quotes About Urgency

In football, things happen so quickly.

Things happen fast. That's this league. You can't slow down, because it's going.

Sex," decided Claudia, as she brushed her teeth that night, "is at the bottom of everything. If I don't hurry up and get some pretty quick I'm going to be definitely out of luck.

Because if there is one simple, single lesson I can impart to you, it's this: Don't waste time, because you don't have any time to waste.

A morte exige brevidade de palavras, porque o tempo é curto. E, sendo curto o tempo, as palavras devem dizer o essencial.

É preciso caminhar rápido. O tempo é breve. Não há tempo para atender a todos os convites da beleza à beira do caminho. A vida é breve. Que pena...

could they get to the river in time?

Well say something, dammit, I'm choking on pretzels!

GREEN APPLES In August we carried the old horsehair mattress To the back porch And slept with our children in a row. The wind came up the mountain into the orchard Telling me something: Saying something urgent. I was happy. The green apples fell on the sloping roof And rattled down. The wind was shaking me all night long; Shaking me in my sleep Like a definition of love, Saying, this is the moment, Here, now.

Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved.

They say how long a minute is essentially depends on which side of the bathroom door you are! Those inside say, "Just a minute, I'm coming." That one minute, for the person outside, is an eternity!

You may think I'm doing this without taking the time to really think it through, and you're absolutely right. It would take me the rest of my life to think this thing through. But it's while you're thinking, while you're weighing the pros and cons, that life goes on. It passes by you while you're doing nothing. - Arthur

Stop drifting. You're not going to re-read your Brief Comments, your Deeds of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, the commonplace books you saved for your old age. Sprint for the finish. Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

So we must have a sense of urgency, not only for the ever closer approach of death, but also because our comprehension of the world and our ability to pay proper attention will fade before we do.

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first.

To wait until the emergency is to be too late.

If you care about yourself at all, come to your own aid while there's still time.

Get busy with life's purpose, toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue—if you care for yourself at all—and do it while you can.

We're using up the Earth. It's almost gone. You can't live with such fears and keep on whistling. The waiting builds up in you like a tide. You start wanting it to be done with. You find yourself saying to the sky, Just do it. Do your worst. Get it over with.

I shiver: whose feet are walking on my grave? Time, I plead to the air, just a little more time. That's all I need.

Some of the best things are done by those with nowhere to turn, by those who don't have time, by those who truly understand the word helpless. They dispense no thought with the calculation of risk and profit, they take no thought for the future, they're forced to spearpoint into the present tense. - Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)

When the slugs begin to talk there's no time to lose.

O, lente, lente currite noctis equi!

This is war time. We can't think of the proprieties now.