Quotes About Urgent

#1. There is an urgent need for mankind to recognise its Creator as this is the only guarantor for the survival of humanity

Mirza Masroor Ahmad

#2. I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war ... But we have no more urgent task.

John F. Kennedy

#3. I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

Ira Glass

#4. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#5. Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by spending more time in Quadrant II ... Quadrant II is the heart of effective personal management.

Stephen Covey

#7. From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have not leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relations to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life ... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Charles Hummel

#9. The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

Raymond Kelly

#10. The most urgent need in your life is to trust what you have received.

Brennan Manning

#11. A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?

Theodore L. Cuyler

#12. The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking, a modem from 1992, a grizzly-bear growl, and a man with a raspy voice shouting what sounds like "mother cooler!

A. J. Jacobs

#13. I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

Terry Richardson

#14. When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch.

R. C. Sherriff

#15. The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. This is now our urgent task. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.

Eckhart Tolle

#16. Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life was in peril.

Joseph Heller

#17. In New York, you are constantly faced with this very urgent decision that you have to make, about every twenty minutes ... you have to decide, immediately, you have to go "Ohmigod. Do I look at the most beautiful woman in the world or the craziest guy in the world?"

David Cross

#18. Don't care about your personal needs. They want to know what you can do to meet their needs. So don't make comments that reflect any urgent desires of your own - such

Kate White

#19. Think before you speak, unless it's urgent

Benny Bellamacina

#20. God's great love in Christ - Christians are compelled to willing, joyful, urgent, faith-driven, grace-saturated, God-glorifying work on behalf of the poor.

David Platt

#21. Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

Stephen Covey

#22. Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no.

Drew Myron

#23. Irrigation is the biggest, most urgent, most vital problem in California today.

Ruth Comfort Mitchell

#24. Being a mother makes everything more urgent.

Marianne Williamson

#25. Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
building better lives.

Nelson Mandela

#26. I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

Alfred Schnittke

#27. became more urgent and more defined. A timeline may not be a virtual reality chamber, but it can help our brains see time for what it really is: limited.

Meg Jay

#28. We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Confucius

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

Angela Carter

#30. He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless.

Cassandra Clare

#31. He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice and abnegation to purge him.

John Meade Falkner

#32. Most people will be a great success if they focus on doing what is important and not what is urgent or pleasant.

Debasish Mridha

#33. Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.

Peter Thiel

#34. In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.

Jeffrey Sachs

#35. Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

Zygmunt Bauman

#36. It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.

Richard Courant

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

Christopher Hitchens

#38. The most urgent war is always the one fought at home

Elizabeth Gilbert

#39. 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.

Robert Graves

#40. I knew that my trauma, no matter what it was, was not unique. I knew that pain was the universal driving force of so many people - I knew that only in the details was it specific, and I just found it urgent to cut right to the chase and get right to the point.

Lydia Lunch

#41. 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.

Claud Cockburn

#42. His lips linger on mine, urgent and warm.
Lasting.
And then he pulls away, breath ragged. His hand falls from my skin, and I understand.
He's not wearing his ring.
He didn't just kiss me.
He read me.

Victoria Schwab

#43. Pleasure is not diversion but urgent life, a social order perceived as temporary.

Don DeLillo

#44. At dusk they pour from the sky. They blow across the ramparts, turn cartwheels over rooftops, flutter into the ravines between houses. Entire streets swirl with them, flashing white against the cobbles. Urgent message to the inhabitants of this town, they say. Depart immediately to open country.

Anthony Doerr

#45. A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.

William Booth

#46. As for dreams, they are powered by urgent desire, even if that desire is only to escape the quotidian.

Gregory Maguire

#47. Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

Claudio Hummes

#48. If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Seth Godin

#49. Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

#50. We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.

Richard Cecil

#51. It's the silliness
the profligacy, and the silliness
that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

Caitlin Moran

#52. The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

Edward Gibbon

#53. America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Mohamed El-Erian

#54. Mrs. Bantry reflected a minute and then applied an urgent conjugal elbow to her sleeping spouse.

Agatha Christie

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

Tom McClintock

#56. Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.

James Surowiecki

#57. Boosting mankind's capability for coping with complex, urgent problems

Douglas Engelbart

#58. Prioritize activities under the captions "important" and "urgent". Do the urgent things first and the important things later.

Israelmore Ayivor

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

Mason Cooley

#60. Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.

Gayle Forman

#61. And then he's kissing me; his mouth is urgent against mine, like he's searching for some sort of reassurance, some kind of promise only I can give.

Jenny Han

#62. Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

Jack Herer

#63. Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Gerald R. Ford

#64. Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.

T.L. Osborn

#65. I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete

Alanis Morissette

#66. 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.

David Blankenhorn

#67. You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

Pope Francis

#68. The flame of urgent coupling burned hottest against the woman, no matter how romantic and high and heartsick the anguish of the man might be pitched in retrospect.

Charles Frazier

#69. The soul is one of the most venerable, enduring images of spiritual traditions worldwide. In The Great Field, John James brings new information to this ancient concept, and in so doing helps bridge the worlds of modern science and spirituality, which is one of the most urgent tasks of our time.

Larry Dossey

#70. Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.

Gary Chapman

#71. Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

Rebecca Solnit

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

Denise Duhamel

#73. You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.

Iyanla Vanzant

#74. In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Mark Twain

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

D.H. Lawrence

#76. Jesus knew the difference between urgent and important. He understood that all the good things he could do were not necessarily the things he ought to do.

Kevin DeYoung

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

Orrin Woodward

#78. The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social function of adjusting production to the most urgent demand. Because of these merits the consumers chose them for business leadership.

Ludwig Von Mises

#79. I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

Lev Grossman

#80. As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Joseph P. Bradley

#81. So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

Annie Dillard

#82. I am only mortal, desperate, urgent. Spirits have endless ages in which to do nothing, if they so choose, but humans have death to hurry them on. Near or far, the end is always in sight. We have no time to stand and stare. Make your choice, Fernanda.

Jan Siegel

#83. Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea.

Marcus Luttrell

#84. That one special thing that you always wanted to accomplish never gets done because you lived each day under the tyranny of the urgent.

Paul David Tripp

#85. One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask.

Richard L. Evans

#86. 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.

Alanis Morissette

#87. Art is a staple of mankind ... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when every other aspect of civilization fails.

Jamake Highwater

#88. People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.

Tim Kaine

#89. The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.

Stewart Brand

#90. We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

Kevin DeYoung

#91. The subtle and varied pains springing from the higher sensibility that accompanies higher culture, are perhaps less pitiable than that dreary absence of impersonal enjoyment and consolation which leaves ruder minds to the perpetual urgent companionship of their own griefs and discontents. The

George Eliot

#92. The Soviet Union welcomed the new system. At the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, urgent messages from the Soviet ambassador in Washington had been encoded by hand and then given to a Western Union messenger who arrived at the embassy on a bicycle.

Eric Schlosser

#93. The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost it's meaning

Jean Baudrillard

#94. We see through the inspired pages that Jesus often stopped His very important, very urgent work, the work He was sent to do, in order to commune with His Father. It appears prayer was as vital to the Son of God as breathing air.

Teresa Hampton

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

Adriana Trigiani

#96. The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man.

Richard Francis Burton

#97. The urgent question; have you live a fuller life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. Development requires modification and transformation of the environment ... the planet's capacity to support its people us being irreversibly reduced by the destruction and degradation of the biosphere and the need to understand the problem and take corrective action is becoming urgent.

Malcolm Fraser

#99. 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.

Joan Didion

#100. In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.

Pico Iyer