Quotes About Urgency

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

If not now, then when?

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

Let go the ropes! Down sail! Do it! Do it! Do it!" There was no real need for those final instructions. The other boys were every bit as tense as he was. But he couldn't restrain himself.

Every fiber of his being wanted to run, to get to the stables as quickly as he could. But he forced himself to walk casually, to avoid attracting attention to himself

Tartaruga! Pronto!

With most rulers, he knew, the words 'whenever it is convenient for you' meant 'right now, and five minutes ago if you can make it'.

the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, Run run run run run," and took off, pulling me behind her.

He had just gotten word that the apocalypse was nigh.

I need you to fly like a Wookiee whose hair is on fire – and who thinks everybody lit the match.

Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo

It's that great British middle-class battle cry: "Something must be done!

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.