Urgent Quotes
321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors
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Early childhood education is an urgent educational, economic and moral imperative. Without it, we face a long-term national economic security crisis.
— J. B. Pritzker
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The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical…
— James Stephens
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There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal,…
— Bill McKibben
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Being a mother makes everything more urgent.
— Marianne Williamson
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The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic…
— Ban Ki-moon
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It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question…
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune…
— Anthony Fauci
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts…
— Ira Glass
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As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should…
— Joseph P. Bradley
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For my entire career, I have worked to bring electronic inventions to healthcare markets where there is a critical and urgent need.
— Chris Toumazou
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When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been…
— Chris Toumazou
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Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
— Mark Twain
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After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made…
— John B. Hood
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Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day…
— Leeza Gibbons
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I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we…
— Alfred Schnittke
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So we are disappointed that some of our closest allies, including Canada, have not agreed with us on the urgent need for this military action…
— Paul Cellucci
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For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the…
— Louis Finkelstein
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most…
— Harri Holkeri
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We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The…
— Ken Starr
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People will pay a price for putting political obstruction over progress in a time that is so critical and urgent.
— Tim Kaine
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and…
— Alexandra Fuller
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The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master Of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the…
— Steven Van Zandt
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I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.
— Terry Richardson
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No intelligent government can continue to ignore the urgent priority of giving support and practical encouragement to marriage and family stability as the first response…
— Vincent Nichols
Who Wrote These Urgent Quotes
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