Quotes About Urgency

In a crisis, time was always the enemy.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

I think if you're going to kill somebody, kill them! Don't stand around talking about it!

Somebody should tell us... right at the start of our lives... that we are dying. Then we might live to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.   Michael Landon

Massoud doubted they had time. "If President Bush doesn't help us," he told a press conference in Strasbourg a few days later, "then these terrorists will damage the United States and Europe very soon—and it will be too late."5

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

I just never learn: When you're about to finally get what you've been wanting, and when it's what you need like you've rarely needed anything, turn off your fucking phone.

Human beings always want explanations. They have to know everything about everything and they have to know it immediately.

The telephone company is urging people not to use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary, in order to keep the lines open for emergency calls. We'll be right back after this break to give away a pair of Phil Collins concert tickets to caller number 95. -unidentified radio disc jockey after the 1990 Los Angeles earthquake

I am always in a rush because time is slipping away, and I am chasing it, chasing it.

I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Well, every down is important and every snap in the game is important. We try to let our players know that.

Someone can have a heart attack at any age. That person may only have so much time, so if there's a chance to help people in distress we should take it.

We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time.

Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.

The fucking world is falling apart and it still doesn't rate as an emergency. Do you really think they're gonna panic over us?

Stifling an obscene oath, I went back up the steps at a run, but I was locking the stable when the horse was already at the airport with a false passport.

needs must when the devil drives

Wtedy wreszcie zrozumiano, ?e nale?y si? rzuci? na Iwana, i rzucono si? na niego.

Hi, Mom…Yes, I know my heart rate's dangerously elevated. That sound? I'm being shot at, Ma. Gotta go now. Love you much. Hugs and kisses. (Devyn)

I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

I can't let the killing go on. No more death, not because of me. This is the only way. You and I both know it. Eio.