Urgent Quotes

321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors

Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of… — Janet Frame
Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone,… — Rebecca Solnit
Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent,… — John Cleese
Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow. — Ann Voskamp
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part… — Alan Watts
I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it mean to be… — Marianne Williamson
It's the silliness--the profligacy, and the silliness--that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in… — Caitlin Moran
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These… — Noam Chomsky
Fenworth nodded. "Yes, yes. Urgent, deadly, insidious. The world is in peril and we must rise against evil." The old wizard released the general and… — Donita K. Paul
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on… — Laini Taylor
My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. — Steve McCurry
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. — Ashleigh Brilliant
I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the… — John F. Kennedy
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means… — Petra Kelly
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove… — Jimmy Carter
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but… — Dennis Gabor
The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the… — Nathaniel Branden
The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a… — Raymond Kelly
We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people… — Evgeny Morozov
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free… — Daniel Pauly
In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the… — Martin Rees
I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me.… — Barbara Park

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