A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency. — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. — George Carey Copy Share Image
“F.U.R FOCUS-URGENCY-RESPONSIBILITY--- As a team you can move mountains without any effort, simply because of our combined faith and commitment!” — Katlego Semusa Copy Share Image
Look!" said Foaly, pointing with some urgency into the vast steel-gray gloom, "Someone who cares! — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“Any barrier, I had learned--even a potential one--was best breached by pretending urgency.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
“No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there… — William Astbury Copy Share Image
I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Some of this is bureaucratic ineptitude and a great deal of this is an administration that doesn't understand the urgency of the… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
What excites me is that, when things are tough, people become resourceful, and now with the Internet, social networking and the ability… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all,… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
People talk about apathy, especially in developed countries. We're kind of lulled into these tranquil lives, and we are pursuing our own… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
“Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this… — Francis Harold Cook Copy Share Image
I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
There's a thin line between playing with a sense of urgency and playing a little too tight. — Matthew Slater Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
If the country is ever attacked as it was on 9/11, we all respond with a sense of urgency. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Energy apparently increases with the amount of work to be done. When nothing of burning urgency is waiting, it decreases much sooner.… — Edith Stein Copy Share Image
“Though the urge to hurry was beginning to beat through my brain, I knew that was the one thing I couldn't do.… — Keri Arthur Copy Share Image
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
Democrats being Democrats, count on those nettlesome conversations about whether Biden will or should run for reelection to reemerge with end-of-the-world urgency. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When you love people, you give them a priority. You have a sense of urgency about their pain. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“The most important things in life rarely come with urgency. It may seem counter intuitive, but the most important things in life… — Erwin Raphael McManus Copy Share Image
The White House was signaling that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was of such urgency that it had priority over the… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed. — Babatunde Fashola Copy Share Image
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image