Quotes About Urgency

There's no time to lose.

So?" Violet's mew interrupted his thoughts. "Are we finishing this or are you going to stare at me all day?

An Emergency Tea was called.

Get to it, already. I'm working the afternoon shift and I don't want to be late.

World ill-health is like world hunger," said Lady Helena. "We could end both tomorrow if we wanted to.

It must be done like lightning.

I was called in about twenty minutes past the appointed time.

There wasn't time to draw up new documents.

To allow a human being to drown because you are busy telling God how much you care about Him and His world is the ultimate hypocrisy.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you will be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrow's; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

You may delay, but time will not.

Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.

Never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children 'school-striking,' and they say, 'Oh the children are going to save us.' But no, we aren't. We are too young to be able to do that. We don't have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

So I am concerned about the amount of time we have to make it, cause it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can't create more time.

The human race only ever realises how serious things are when it's at your door.

We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.

Well, you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway, so live dangerously.

Do you understand this is serious? I understand you think it's serious.

To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached.