Quotes About Urgency

If they want to win right now, I'm all for it. That's all I said the whole time. If you want to wait five years, let me know. My legs aren't as young as they used to be.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

So many means of self-destruction, so little time.

Ignore the people who advice you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

Patience? Certainly no! We have no time for patience! While tomorrow is just an assumption, it is not reasonable to be patient!

You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!

Waiting makes wine better; but waiting makes man decay! Don't wait because you have no time! Move fast!

Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain't a minute to lose. They're after us!

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

Gäbe es die letzte Minute nicht, so würde niemals etwas fertig.

I was back to being polite, the well-tempered paranoid. I didn't have much of a choice. If I wasn't polite, they could stick me with those needles or put me back in that little room or take away my visitor privileges or any number of other things. Besides, there didn't seem to be any urgency or anything to be gained by not being polite, the way there had been before. So I was polite. There was time.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes? You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on earth, it's true for the vast majority—that death waits for no man—and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

Saumensch, du dreckiges—it's about time!

I'm compelled to continue on, because although it's not true for every person on Earth, it's true for the vast majority that death waits for no man and if he does, he doesn't usually wait very long.

The sense of urgency just wasn't there. Also, you may have noticed, I don't care.

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words 'Too Late'.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Si supiera que el mundo se acaba mañana, yo, hoy todavía, plantaría un árbol.

We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always rip to do right.

To her mind, when you were drowning and a rope was thrown your way, you didn't waste time thinking about what to do. You just grabbed it, then kicked and swam like the devil to safety.