Urgency Quotes

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

If not one more cent in new aid money flowed [to Africa], we could with more urgency and efficiency and creativity be doing much more to take more people out of poverty.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

I don't have a fear and urgency feeling inside myself about the state of the world affairs and everything collapsing.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives.

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the crushing of al Qaeda.

We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.

Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

In order to be a great marketer, you have to be focused and intense and look at scarcity, urgency, activity and passion in the marketplace.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.

The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. [...] It has developed weapons of mass death.

The urgency for reducing climate emissions is too great. We must take our collective experience and use it toward making green design a part of all design.

I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues.

When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me

The urgency derives from the nearness of climate tipping points.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

There's a certain urgency that comes from the records of the early 60s before overdubbing and multitracking came into play.

And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way.

Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

I don't think of it as procrastination. I think of it as allowing my work to accumulate urgency.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

Urgency is insecurity.