Quotes About Urgency

I really hate to be Debbie Downer right now, because everyone would love to say, "Yeah, we're finally doing something on climate!

I wish our love was right now.

Mrs. Quimby pushed her chair farther from the table and glanced at her watch. All eyes were on her. "Shall I call the doctor?" asked Mr. Quimby. "Please," said Mrs. Quimby as she rose from the table, hugged Algie, and breathed, "Oo-oo.

When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.

A quick Google search reveals there to be seven, ten, five, four or eight 'years to save the planet', depending on your headline writer and expert of choice ('Eleven years to save the planet' seems at the moment a rallying cry still up for grabs).

To an American shopper there are just three spans of time: now, tomorrow at the very latest, and we'll look elsewhere.

In other words, by mid-century, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly.

Unless we move fast toward zero, bad things (and probably many of them) will happen well within most people's lifetime, and very bad things will happen within a generation.

How quickly do we need to get to zero? Science tells us that in order to avoid a climate catastrophe, rich countries should reach net-zero emissions by 2050. You've probably heard people say we can decarbonize deeply even sooner—by 2030.

A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time.

A runaway calendar will keep you from simplifying your life. It holds you hostage to tangible things—meetings, appointments, and projects—without giving proper priority to the intangibles: who you are becoming, your relationships with family and friends, your connectedness to God. Without conscious intervention, this pattern of chronically overscheduling ensures that the priorities you care about most will take a backseat to the urgent priorities of others every time. GRABBING

Quick! To the Bat-Fax!

Fascinatio nugacitatis - Pentru ca patima s? nu ne vat?me, s? tr?im ca ÅŸi cum n-am avea decât opt zile de tr?it.

We're down to nine hours." "Until?" Scout asked. The Keep was expressionless. "Something bad happens." "Right," Scout said, as if she completely understood. "Bad.

Don't take any questions, all the staff told him with urgency. Trump said he did not plan on taking any. At the press briefing, he took questions

I have never understood those dreams of a completely original form of expression. The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say. Then he uses the old language in his urgency and the old language is translated from within.

Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.

Don't play, Gia, he growled. Suck me or fuck me. Make me come.

I will see to this; you see to your sister. Be quick about it. It won't be long before I come for you, and you'd best be ready, Jess, with my ring still gracing your hand. You won't stay me then. I'll drag you to Scotland in irons if I have to." He left her in a rush. As always, taking her heart with him.

You've got five minutes to get your ass up and in the shower, or the shower's coming to you.

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes.

I'd left the apartment Eva shared with her best friend, Cary Taylor, only a couple of hours earlier, wanting to give her time to catch a few hours of sleep before she headed into work. We had been at each other all night, both of us too needy and greedy. But there'd been something else, too. An urgency on Eva's part that gnawed at me and left me uneasy.

HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME

out of the aircraft before it sinks like a bloody stone?