Quotes About Urgency

Never leave a message for someone you really want to reach. No, you keep phoning and phoning until someone picks up—out of anger or curiosity or fear—and then you blurt out whatever words will keep them on the line. I

To me, all that urgent hopefulness was more frightening than if I'd found a pile of skulls with hair still attached. I ran out in full panic, my underwear tucked up a sleeve.

the urgent hopefulness of a seriously underdog politician with a lot of true believers refusing to give up.

Habían insistido que me quedara..., insistido con la misma urgencia con la que en otros tiempos se habían arrojado sobre el camarero para arrebatarle la cuenta de la cena: la hospitalidad entendida como una feroz fuerza de la naturaleza.

Fiske spoke sharply to the four walls. We need medical attention immediately. We have a gunshot wound that requires treatment. You're not going to get through to them by talking like an English professor, scoffed Reagan. Hey! she bawled. Get a doctor down here! She's in pain, thanks to you! What are you going to do about it?

There's no time to waste, Kai said. He did a backflip off the tower and ran off. What is it with that guy? Jay asked. Always in a rush!

Will on the phone, the sooner you stop bleeding." Hickey dialed a number and

But at my back I always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

The fully mature man or woman, he said, has about two seconds left to live.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

I think any thinking person should be worried about climate change.

No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

I spar in the gym, and I take pride in my sparring. But I'm a better fighter when the lights come on because it's right now - there is no tomorrow.

Man, the only thing that's important is what is due tomorrow. I don't care what it is as long as it's good.

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.