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Quotes About Urgency

since time is a luxury you don't always have." He believed
~ Steven M. Gillon
Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.
~ Steven Wright
Il giornalismo è l'arte di arrivare troppo tardi il più in fretta possibile.
~ Stig Dagerman
I trust only myself-ourselves. We must travel and find ourselves a soulscaper, Gimel, a soulscaper suited to our needs. It has gone on too long, come too close. The sickness breathes upon our necks. I, for one, can wait no longer for others to act.
~ Storm Constantine
We have to take him soon, Ninka, or rather I do.
~ Storm Constantine
We have both learned something about each other, but there is no time for thoughtful reflection.
~ Storm Constantine
Little time, little time, little time, sang the rhythm of the pounding hooves.
~ Storm Constantine
There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.
~ Storm Jameson
Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God's name is the point of cultural studies?...At that point, I think anybody who is into cultural studies seriously as an intellectual practice, must feel, on their pulse, its ephemerality, its insubstantiality, how little it registers, how little we've been able to change anything or get anybody to do anything. If you don't feel that as one tension in the work that you are doing, theory has let you off the hook.
~ Stuart Hall
And I desperately wanted to return to the world! I didn't want to waste any more time. I was determined, so determined, not to waste time ever again.
~ Susan Burton
One of the metaphors that I use for start-ups is, you throw yourself off a cliff and assemble your airplane on the way down. If you don't solve the right problem at the right time, that's the end. Mortality puts priorities into sharp focus.
~ Reid Hoffman
When death is imminent remember - this is not a dress rehearsal, the time is now, share your love!
~ Alison Bramhall
So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time
~ Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
Step ahead immediately and do what you have to do before it's too late.
~ Moutasem Algharati
Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.
~ Drew Myron, Thin Skin
Hurry up, before there's no more night left.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
~ Miranda July
Si no creus en la vida eterna, pensa que ens hem d'afanyar. Suposo que estàs d'acord que se'ns acaba el temps.
~ Miriam Toews
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
~ Mitch Albom
If you accept that you can die at any time - then you might not be as ambitious as you are
~ Mitch Albom
I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
~ Mitch Albom
When you're in bed, you're dead
~ Mitch Albom
I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.
~ Mitch Albom
No, I've been calm all my life! If I don't do something, it's gonna kill me!
~ N.H. Kleinbaum