Quotes About Urgency

My husband Charlie says I get ready five minutes before I go out the door. I am one of those people who can't do anything unless it's imminent - that's how I roll.

I'm a very impatient person.

I'm impatient sometimes.

I am very impatient.

I've been described as impatient.

I am a man in a hurry. We have to work both from office and roadside. I am impatient.

I am very impatient and get frustrated if results are not delivered in time.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

It's a real concern of mine every day. What can we do? How much can we do? How quickly can we address all these important things?

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

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I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?

To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?

That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.

She was beautiful, too, with dark eyebrows and deep-set eyes outlined in black. Her image was like sharp glass cutting into me, I rushed to the surface to meet her with an urgency bordering on hysteria. Someone get gauze and bandages. I'm falling out. She's some dream I had. She's got part of me I didn't know I needed.

While his body's vigor is whole And old age is remote; While his sensuous powers are unimpaired And life not yet exhausted; Only then would a wise man Strive to perfect his soul. Why attempt to dig a well When the house is already burning?

During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

Climate change has become such a familiar term that we tend to read past it- it's part of our mental furniture, like urban sprawl or gun violence.

I think the system has met its match. We no longer possess the margin we'd require for another huge leap forward, certainly not fast enough to preserve the planet we used to live on.

But we are here to tell you, in this postcard from the former paradise, that it won't happen next year, or somewhere else. It will happen right where you live and it could happen today. No one will be spared.

Britain's Exeter University, a scientist named Kevin Anderson took the podium for a major address. He showed slide after slide, graph after graph, "representing the fumes that belch from chimneys, exhausts and jet engines, that should have bent in a rapid curve towards the ground, were heading for the ceiling instead." His conclusion: it was "improbable" that we'd be able

If your house is on fire, you don't comfort yourself with the thought that houses have been catching fire for thousands of years. You don't sit idly back and think, "Oh well, that is the way of nature." You get going, immediately. And you don't spring into action because of an idealistic notion that houses deserve to be saved. You do it because if you don't, you won't have a place to live.

Lincoln telegraphs his heartfelt reply: 'Let the thing be pressed.