Urgent Quotes - Page 17

• I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Brother, Believe

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• At this point, an urgent question arises: [...] Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?

  Emile Durkheim

  Character, Law, Division Of Labor

  "De la division du travail social (The Division of Labor in Society)". Book by Emile Durkheim (p. 41 in 1947 translation of George Simpson), 1893.

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• A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

  Charles Hummel

  Wall, Home, Men

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• Of all the problems of conservation, none is more urgent that the polluted air which endangers the American people. We have been fortunate so far. But we have seen that when winds fail to blow, the concentrations of poisonous clouds over our cities can become perilous.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Blow, Clouds, Air

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.361, Best Books on

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• I always try to do the most important or urgent tasks first, I avoid waiting till the last minute to finish things, and I value my time. I work smarter by valuing my time and doing the things that can't be done without me while hiring a great team around me to do the rest of the things.

  Jeet Banerjee

  Team, Waiting, Important

  Source: theimarketingcafe.com

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• When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Queens, Writing, Prom Queen

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• 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

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1850). “Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt”, p.309

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• To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

  Adam Smith

  Sacrifice, Law, Ideas

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.26

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

  Ameen Rihani

  Giving, Goal, Priorities

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• In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

  George Santayana

  Authority, Tendencies, Oneself

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  Writing, Mean, Way

  Robert Graves, Paul O'Prey (1995). “Collected writings on poetry”, Carcanet Pr

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• I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.

  Paul Bettany

  Black And White, Thinking, Culture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Among the immediate obligations and duties resting upon members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, and one of the most urgent and pressing for attention and action of all liberty loving people, is the preservation of individual liberty.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, People, Church

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• A federal bailout would spare California from having to make spending cuts needed to bring its budget into balance. The matter has become urgent since California voters rejected several tax-hiking ballot initiatives. Rather than taking the vote as a signal to dramatically curtail spending, the state turned to the feds. If they get a free pass, the politicians can avoid fixing any of their past mistakes or preparing California for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Mistake, Cutting, Past

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• I believe that there is an urgent need to restructure the discussion of war to include the impact it has on women.

  Zainab Salbi

  War, Believe, Impact

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our politics are being hijacked by a comparatively small number of people who seek to dominate the debate by screaming the loudest. They see the world as an urgent struggle between true believers and nonbelievers. They attempt to impose strict litmus tests and insist on conformity. They demonize dissent and consider all political opponents their enemies. Fear is their favourite tactic as they try to divide and conquer

  John Avlon

  Struggle, Small Numbers, People

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• The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?

  William Wilberforce

  Mean, Knowing, Giving

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

  Ian Bogost

  Ordinary, Can Do, Seems

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.

  Natalie Portman

  Winning, Voting, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The bulk of our efforts [in The Khaled Hosseini Foundation] has focused on helping build permanent shelters for returning refugees who are homeless, living out in the open or in makeshift homes. This is an area of urgent need as Afghanistan's natural elements are quite harsh, with very hot summers, and freezing winters.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Summer, Home, Winter

  Source: www.wired.com

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• We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Technology, Needs

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Summits are best at dealing with problems, where the need for action is urgent and the range of possible actions limited. They are less good at dealing with opportunities.

  David Souter

  Opportunity, Needs, Action

  "Interview with David Souter: Learning from the WSIS Experience". Interview with Kat Walraven, www.apc.org. September 12, 2007.

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• To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Responsibility

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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