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Quotes About Urgency

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
~ Tennessee Williams
We're five minutes away." He
~ Julianne MacLean
Well, I have news for you. Life is short. It flies by faster than you think, and you never know when the rug will get pulled out from under you, so if you really want something more, you need to get busy.
~ Julianne MacLean
She was backing away from him now. Don't go, was his first panicked thought. Followed by: Hurry up.
~ Julie Anne Long
You're running out of tomorrows." Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my room, sprawling across my bed to begin another midnight marathon of homework. Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.
~ Julio Cortazar
y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.
~ Julio Cortazar
si encontráramos la manera podríamos vivir mil veces más de lo que estamos viviendo por culpa d los relojes, de esa manía de minutos y de pasado mañana...
~ Julio Cortazar
Y en la antena de la radio flotaba locamente la bandera con la cruz roja, y se corría a ochenta kilómetros por hora hacia las luces que crecían poco a poco, sin que ya se supiera bien por qué tanto apuro, por qué esa carrera en la noche entre autos desconocidos donde nadie sabía nada de los otros, donde todo el mundo miraba fijamente hacia adelante, exclusivamente hacia adelante.
~ Julio Cortazar
Me tiré contra la puerta antes de que fuera demasiado tarde, la cerré de golpe apoyando el cuerpo; felizmente la llave estaba puesta de nuestro lado y además corrí el gran cerrojo para mas seguridad. Fui a la cocina, calenté la pavita, y cuando estuve de vuelta con la bandeja del mate le dije a Irene: - Tuve que cerrar la puerta del pasillo. Han tomado la parte del fondo.
~ Julio Cortazar
It's all well and good to save the human race. You could say I'm in favor. But you might want to pay a little more attention to what's right in front of you.
~ Justin Cronin
Tobacco Will Slowly and Surely Kill You." And so will time , Gwynn thought. But if you want the job done quickly, professionals recommend bullet.
~ K.J. Bishop
It's like—all right, supposing there's a fire. What do you do? You grab everyone and everything you can and you get the hell out of there. You don't agonise about letting the fire win. Staying alive doesn't make you the fire's accomplice.
~ K.J. Parker
Why are there never eighty soldiers around when you need them?
~ K.J. Parker
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
~ Kamala Harris
Being a teenager anyway is incredibly intense and every moment is invested with ferocious importance.
~ Ol Parker
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
If I have to advise our brothers in France, I'll tell them one thing - move to Israel, as early as possible. I say that to Jews all around the world, but there I think it's a must and they have to move immediately.
~ Ariel Sharon
I said to dawn, Be sudden; to eve, Be soon.
~ Francis Thompson
Qué raro que se muera alguien en vendimia. Siempre la gente lo deja para después.
~ Francisco García Pavón
Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The sooner, the better!
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Tim Lenton from the University of East Anglia told the Cambridge meeting: "We are close to being committed to a collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, but we don't think we have passed the tipping point yet." How long have we got? Maybe less than a decade.
~ Fred Pearce
Caron for a few minutes agreed to be in his communications room at the time Caron suggested to take a person-to-person call from Lebel on a matter of great urgency. Van Ruys of South Africa was out
~ Frederick Forsyth