An urgent wish is no guarantor of a sound solution.

“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the…

— Alain de Botton

The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson…

— Anthony Kennedy

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

— Joan Didion

They [leaders in Western Europe] do not misuse financial instruments, financial injections, but, first of all, seek structural change. This is urgent for our…

— Vladimir Putin

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to their social…

— Ludwig von Mises

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,…

— Robert Graves

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

— Jane McGonigal

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path…

— Yehudi Menuhin

The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps…

— Seth Godin

God puts you where God needs you. You are where you are supposed to be. The job you are doing may not be any…

— Lawrence Kushner

Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

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,…

— David Cross

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

— Tim Kaine