Quotes About Urgency

Suddenly, out of nowhere, some random old guy grabs me on the arm and starts dragging me into a side corridor. "You must come with me," he says in an urgent voice.

In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.

Now and again, a frantic feeling seized her with sudden force. It would come on without warning, a type of panic, a sense that there was something she'd left undone, which would have catastrophic consequences if it wasn't addressed.

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But, as we all know, the first law of shopping says that when you're urgently looking for something specific, you've no hope of finding it.

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency.

The pace and urgency of war have always accelerated the development of technology and encouraged novel uses of devices that already exist.

Nature may have even less patience than politicians.

If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?

We have less time than we knew and that time buoyant, and cloven, lucent, and missile, and wild.

Get your sorry ass down to Saint Vincent's, they've got a fast emergency room. Get yourself stitched up and get yourself back here in two fucking hours!

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Emotional crises always promote the urgent need for executive action, so that the times when we most hope to be free from the practical administration of life are always those when the need to cope with a concrete world is more than ever necessary.

A liability suddenly presented itself, bringing such musings sharply to a close, demanding rapid decisions.

The key is to get lots of reasons, or better yet, strong enough reasons, why the change should take place immediately, not someday in the future. If you are not driven to make the change now, then you don't really have leverage.

At his door she now presented herself, and, having explained to his wife that most urgent business required her to go at once to Barchester, begged that Farmer Subsoil would take her thither in his tax-cart. The farmer did not reject her plan, and, as soon as Prince could be got into his collar, they started on their journey.

As usual, there aren't enough last minutes.

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure—and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Run, you flippin' moron, run!

In delay, there lies no plenty

If you are not ready in three minutes I will come in and drown you. I want my breakfast.

Histaiaeus shaved the head of his messenger, wrote the message on his scalp, and then waited for the hair to regrow. This was clearly a period of history that tolerated a certain lack of urgency.

Tut! Tut!' cried Sherlock Holmes. 'You must act, man, or you are lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for despair.