Quotes About Urgency

But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.

Fay cast a strartled glance at the clock, and sprang up. Heavens, it's past four! I must fly or Arthur will have a fit. He can't bear unpunctuality. Are you ready? I'm ready, said Dinah, but I shall dawdle for ten minutes for the good of Arthur's soul.

The sense of struggling through the thickets of a nightmare again swept over her. There was a way out, so her heart's voice cried to her, and could she find it she would find also Damerel, her dear friend. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.

Rot his black soul! fumed Rupert. The devil's in it now and no mistake. A horse, Fletcher, a horse! Horse sir? Burn it, would I want a cow? Horse, man, and quickly!

You're a long time dead. So do it NOW!

What if you wake up only to die that day?

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

We need a T governance structure capable of responding to the depth of our regional transportation crisis while tearing down silos that keep municipal leaders and state officials from working together with urgency on shared goals.

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

When you're part of a World Cup, it's always now or never.

There's time enough, but none to spare.

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

I say it time and time again: You have to do things with force and speed and pace.

The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle.

Bringing in timely laws that are the need of the hour requires nimbleness to get through the necessary legislative processes.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

I dreamt I went to the doctor's and she gave me eight minutes to live-I'd been sitting in the fucking waiting room half an hour.

They are preparing to go to war, and with so little time to waste, they say what they mean.

People who are desperate are much more effective than people who have time to waste.