Quotes About Urgency

The man with forty-five minutes to live cannot defend himself.

What the general public doesn't always understand is that wrestlers often only have hours to put things together, not days or weeks, except in certain cases.

I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Your lack of planning is not my emergency.")

The matter had to be settled immediately, without delaying another day, for at times he too felt an imperious need for instant solutions, which is all the weak are capable of, given their inability to sustain an effort of will.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

The Faster you want to go, lesser the time you have to make decisions

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities.

Brace and be brisk, commoner, carry your heart like an egg on a spoon, be fleet through the concourse, primed for that point in time when the world goes bust

The sooner you do what you are meant to do, the better."

Look at what the Clock is doing, then never wait for tomorrow.

When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

if you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing

but she wanted ALL Oxford to see her—see her NOW.

When fighting for your life, it may simply be too easy to flip the switch to "rock 'n' roll," no matter how wasteful and useless this might be.

You have five minutes or I decorate the tarmac with my brains.

I want you to get your arse over there and take care of her this weekend. I need her well by Monday night, because that's when I'm going to crawl for her I've got a ring to buy this weekend and other arrangements to make. All you have to do is have her at Rockefeller Center Monday night by the Christmas tree. Don't f this up, Jace. I don't care if you have to carry her. You make sure she's there.

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?

So take my advice: whatever you do? Don't blink

Could there be three other words in the English language more effective at striking terror deep within the heart than Got a minute?