Urgent Quotes - Page 3

• During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

  Bill Maher

  Gratitude, Coffee, Book

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• Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them, or die.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.39, CCEL

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• I think the right way to do this is just to step up and do it, so I actually think we'll see more of that over the next coming weeks, because I think they'll say, "We'd like to be good for business and quiet on politics, but this is too urgent, it is too much of a key crisis in who we are going to become as Americans. We can risk too much, and so we have to step forward." And I think you will see more and more people stepping forward, like Howard Schultz, Steve Case and other folks, in order to try to make a difference in this [Donald Trump] election.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Differences, Keys

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Inspirational, Running, Forever

  Song: Incomplete, Album: Flavors Of Entanglement, 2008

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• 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

  Winning, Years, People

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

  Havelock Ellis

  Population, Tasks, Decrease

  Havelock Ellis (2013). “On Life and Sex: Essays of Love & Virtue”, p.126, Elsevier

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• I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

  Umberto Eco

  Fall, Writing, Years

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• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Broken Heart, Heartbroken, Breakup

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

  David Bohm

  Essence, Live For Today, Growing

  David Bohm (2005). “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”, p.2, Routledge

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• We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Learning, Garden

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• Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is that there's an urgent need for a solution there and that's been dragging on for so long.

  Javier Bardem

  Israel, Long, Needs

  "Berlin 2012: Javier Bardem Talks About Alvaro Longoria's 'Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony' (Q&A)". Interview with Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Taken, Florida, Environmental

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• 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

  Way, Life Is, Questioning

  Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons

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• She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Struggle, Might, Desperate

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, Men

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.71, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Needs, Embrace

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• Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Priorities In Life, Important

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• 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

  Running, Children, Long

  Gary Chapman, Ross Campbell (2012). “The 5 Love Languages of Children”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Passion, Writing

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Feelings, Desire

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• It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Girl, Years, Language

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• By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Creating, People

  "The Rachel Maddow Show" with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. March 24, 2009.

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• 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

  Numbers, Tasks, Needs

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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