Urgencies Quotes

#1. Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Love is listening when they are ready to talk
midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

Sharon G. Larsen

#3. A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

John Updike

#4. Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.

Fannie Hurst

#5. Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#6. To put it most simply, the evangelical ethos is activistic, populist, pragmatic, and utilitarian. It allows little space for broader or deeper intellectual effort because it is dominated by the urgencies of the moment.

Mark A. Noll

#7. Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

#8. The problem is that urgencies - the most vivid and immediate circumstances - will always hog our spotlight.

Chip Heath

#9. The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Daniel Bell

#10. Just because someone is a loner, it doesn't mean they're alone. And just because someone is alone, it doesn't mean they're lonely.

Jason Daniel Chaplin

#11. The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.

Albert J. Nock

#12. I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

St. Vincent

#13. You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

James Franco

#14. With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Walter Dean Myers

#15. A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn't buy your way into it.

Rachel Cusk

#16. When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

Steve Maraboli

#17. We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

Adam Rich

#18. I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Dan Harmon

#19. Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

Margaret Atwood