Quotes About Urgency

When a man's neck's in danger, he doesn't stop to think too much about sentiment.

he seemed in a great hurry, and anxious to get away." I have no doubt but that that was the case.

WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!

The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.

Look at him he's just now getting ready and dressed and its 6 fucking minutes to the show! God fucking musicians.

burst. How could I possibly wait? He turned to

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

Do you have to sound so damned indifferent to it all? Here we are talking about how we're likely to be dead in a few hours and you're acting like it's only a minor inconvenience. ~"Spirey & the Queen

That didn't take long," Trysil said, clenching a fist so that the muscles popped out along her arm. "You know the captain. When he wants to leave, we leave.

The first query had been merely technical; a check to see that the communication beam was still online. Later, the weapon had become more urgent; adopting tones of polite insistence. Now it was getting far less diplomatic, throwing the machine equivalent of a tantrum.

We have worlds to save, Doctor Aziba." "That sounds ... compelling," the physician allowed.

All I do know is that in six hours I could be suffering from acute existence failure.

I've only been on this planet for ten minutes,' I said. 'Already I feel like I've overstayed my welcome.' Purslane looked at me with icy forbearance. 'Work really hard, and maybe next time you can get it down to five.

If you feel anything weird, immediately call 911 and give them your address because you may not make it past the phone call.

Time is running out to permeate the piece.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.

The task of dealing with global warming is urgent and important.

Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions.

There isn't a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

Global warming - utterly disinterested in our political paralysis - worsens at a terrifying pace.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.