Quotes About Urgency

He was the sort of man who demanded results yesterday but then forgot to ask for them tomorrow.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

He who hesitates is usually fucked!

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know—by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter arrives, hovers, drops a rope ladder. Climb up! the man leaning out of the helicopter's door shouts. Guy on top of burning building responds, Give me two weeks to think about it .

by 11:00 A.M. I needed coffee desperately. A gallon or so seemed about right.

There has never been a more urgent time than now for you to seek to maximize your potential for achieving greater balance in your life.

For the love of God, does anybody got a toothbrush?

If you love someone, you should say it often, You never know when they'll be layin' in a coffin. Wake up, it's important that you know that No one on Earth is promised tomorrow.

Especially when he is plainly unable to move, and is saying, gently, 'Clark. Please. Just come over here. Please,

Sung sirens, sliding through the streets, streaking blue light from distress to distress, the slow wail weaving urgency through the darkest of the dark hours, a lament lifted high, held above the rooftops and fading away, lifted high, flashing past, fading away.

People were rushing by, all hurrying to die

Cohen said, "Okay, no sense dillydallying

Value is relative," said the saint. "A man with his house on fire and a man dying of thirst each place a different value on a glass of water.

The world's clock had run down, and haste was irrelevant.

You will be late for your own funeral.

At last! Am I glad to see you! Right, stab this guy quickly, and let's be going.

A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.

Lo primero que necesitamos para ir domando la voluntad es ser capaces de renunciar a la satisfacción que nos produce lo urgente, lo que pide paso sin más.

When the people of a congregation zealously hold convictions about time and space, the church will begin to change (and change fast)! There is a powerful grace that comes with the belief that this mortal life is terrifyingly brief and the life after death is gloriously infinite. This profound conviction moves the church to become a people of radical action, urgency, unction, and even risk.

You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.

He couldn't know the future. He had to do what he could to save every person. Today. Now.

had less than twenty-four hours to do it. His musings were interrupted

What do you mean, something important? It's the middle of the night! -Sandstorm