102 Urgency Quotes

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Health care for all Americans is the most pressing domestic issue today. It's far past time for the President and Congress to deliver health care to everyone.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

Every minute that we lose will cost us great losses later that we will not be able to afford.

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place - then it won't make a damn.

'The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.'

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.

'I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!''

It's a cliche - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

'Tis time, my friend, 'tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.

Now therefore while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way

Come my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love; Time will not be ours forever, He at length our good will sever. Spend not then his gifts in vain; Suns that set may rise again, But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night.

. . . I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me- Oh do it, do it you motherfuckers do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.

These two enormous forces - truth and meaning - are at war in today's world. ...And something sooner or later has to give.

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

You are three seconds away, and The Rock means the seconds away, from The Rock to lay the smack down on your candy ass!

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

Either night or the Prussians will come.

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens.

The future is seconds ahead.

I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.... There was no greeting ceremony and we were basically told to run to our cars. That is what happened.

O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I don't know whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you carefully and take these words to those who could not be present here today.

Good Brother Martin, I thank you for comforting me, but you must leave this place... now.

Rance: A search party must be organized. What have you in the way of dogs? Prentice: A spaniel and a miniature poodle. Rance: Let them be unleashed!

You say you want a Revolution; you better get it on right away.

'Get your butt over here!'

'I need my fucking water, I don't care!' -Live At Wembley Stadium, 1986

Why are you here? Because when I get the answers to my questions, I want to be able to act on them immediately

Why should I wait until tomorrow? I've already been I've already seen All the sorrow thats in store

We only have two more days to protect our crotches and assorted genetalia.

The fat is in the fire.

Loca, Get The Stuff!

So who's in a hurry?

Get down, Karen!

Momma, I'm goin' fast!

People are selfish, but they can also be compassionate and generous, and they care about the country. But not when they feel threatened. That's why this is such a crucial time. We can go in either direction. But if we don't make a choice soon, it will be too late to turn things around. I think people are willing to make the right choice. But they need leadership. They're hungry for leadership.

As a professor used to say to me, it's life or death out there so make it happen.'

One minute decides the outcome of a battle, one hour the success of a campaign, one day the fate of empires.

It is later than you think. May it not be true for this Sundial.

'God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out'

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

And all in a hurry, for fear her mind would change, she said the words [for a different spell] (nothing will induce me to tell you what they were). Then she waited for something to happen. - As nothing happened she began looking at the pictures. And all at once she saw the very last thing she expected - a picture of a third-class carriage in a train, with two schoolgirls sitting in it. ... Only now it was much more than a picture. It was alive. She could see the telegraph posts flicking past outside the window.... (ch. 10)

Die before you Die. There is no chance after.

An immortal being has all the time in the world for doubts and bewilderment and fears. A warrior, on the other hand, cannot:because he knows for a fact that the totality of himself has but a little time on this earth.

For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!

Villain, a horse-- Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly, To swim the river, villain, and to fly.

Stephen, it is time to rock.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live, understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides. If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death? It is but an empty dream, that the soul shall have union with Him because it has passed from the body: If He is found now, He is found then, If not, we do but go to dwell in the City of Death. If you have union now, you shall have it hereafter.

Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!

Now or never was the time.

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave. And when I say 'before we leave', I mean 'before we die'.

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

'We must move with speed to mobilise all sectors of society in a stepped-up drive against HIV/AIDS, accelerating the pace to halt the virus before the Pacific's window of opportunity slams shut.'

'Don't let him cut my hand off- The doctor, when he comes. Don't let him, sister!' So. But the hand was gone already.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

My message to Sinn Fein is clear. The settlement train is leaving. I want you on that train. But it is leaving anyway and I will not allow it to wait for you.

If we don't act now, we can't keep those people down there forever. We can't wait forever. If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing begins again and he carries on developing these weapons and these are dangerous weapons, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorists who we know want to use these weapons if they can get them.

I fear my own conscience on Africa. I fear the judgement of future generations, where history properly calculates the gravity of the suffering. I fear them asking: but how could wealthy people, so aware of such suffering, so capable of acting, simply turn away to busy themselves with other things? What greater call to action could there be? Did they really know and yet do nothing? I feel that judgement of the future alongside the now. It gives me urgency. It fills me with determination.

'RING THE DAMN BELL!'

'Alla! Alla! ALLA!!!'