Quotes About Urgency

Procrastinate later.

Burning daylight

We're burnin' daylight.

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital

He covered her hands with his. "Why the hurry?" "Seriously?" She stared at him, her jaw dropping. "I'm on fire! If we wait one more minute, I'm certain the sheets will spontaneously combust. I won't be held responsible if your house burns down because you wanted to waste time on foreplay.

La puntualidad es una variedad de la «locura del escrúpulo». Por llegar a la hora, yo sería capaz de cometer un crimen.

Budu?i da te nikakva prirodna sklonost ne nagoni na djelo i njegovo dovršenje, zašto tako silno težiš samoostvarenju? I budu?i da ne osu?uješ dokolicu, što te tjera na užurbanost i djelovanje? Odakle grižnja savjesti što tratiš vrijeme kad znaš za njegovu uzaludnost?

Sauve qui peut.

The great bulk of treaties could wait a little without harm, and in the very few cases when urgent haste is necessary, an autumn session of Parliament could well be justified, for the occasion must be of grave and critical importance.

When you have a child, you get a surge of ambition, or a surge of hormonal urgency, to get something done, something worthy of your new station in life.

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.

felt under the gun in the past

You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years.

I realized that with African American people, where we've been blocked from being all that God meant for us to be, I don't have time to be patient.

Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.

On climate change, we have only a handful of years to make massive changes, according to the scientists. The politicians have to act, and only the people can make them, because Royal Dutch Shell's not going to do it.

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough.

Faster, more intense

Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.

Come; come! He who cannot act must make haste to sleep!

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

La vida es demasiado corta y la muerta está demasiado cerca.

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

we did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty as immodestly as possible.