Urgent Quotes

Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear.

Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.

What is urgent will always take precedence over what is important.

Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an impressive figure.

I agree with Stephen Covey that too many people spend too much time on doing what is urgent rather than on doing what is import.

Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

As one gets older, this question of death, becomes more vexing and urgent.

I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

I am going to ensure that LGBTQ Americans have full equality under the law and address the urgent crisis of violence against transgender women of color.

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

The next kiss deepened, became more urgent, needy. There was no space between them, and she could feel he enjoyed their closeness. Riley heard him moan and they reluctantly broke apart.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent to children.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.

But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

Anything I do today, I regard as urgent.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

Fear can give you urgent wings.

The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.

An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.

Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.

The world was warned of extremely severe dangers unless urgent steps are taken to deal with global warming.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life.

Each person, and every people hungers and thirsts for peace; therefore, it is necessary and urgent to build peace!

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.

Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character available to you in times of urgent need.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.