When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. — R. C. Sherriff Copy Share Image
One of our urgent opportunities is to respond to a child when he earnestly asks, remembering that they don't always ask. — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
We believe that our truly urgent need is to make our nation secure, our economy strong and our dollar sound. For every… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater - how at first it's alright and you can handle it,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The planet Earth in its present mode of florescence is being devastated. This devastation is being fostered and protected by legal, political… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding,Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West,That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding,Whither… — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
Faith and character are intimately related. Faith in the power of obedience to the commandments of God will forge strength of character… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to… — Jacob Neusner Copy Share Image
In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue,… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all,… — Robert D. Putnam Copy Share Image
If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in America is the creaky old age of an eighteenth-century settlement, deemed at the time to be the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether… — Alma Gluck Copy Share Image
