Urgent Quotes

321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors

At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful… — Sogyal Rinpoche
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on… — Sigourney Weaver
Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear. — Barack Obama
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is… — Stephen Covey
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things. — Miguel de Cervantes
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are… — Ralph Fiennes
No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems… — Maude Barlow
The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it… — Jeffrey Sachs
People have different interpretations of "urgent". — Marco Arment
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent task is to… — Sigmund Jahn
The need for a global structure of control in the form of a world environment court is now more urgent than ever before. — Judi Dench
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action — Unknown Author
Climate change now represents so urgent a threat to mankind that the only way to deal with it is by suspending democracy. — James Lovelock
We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival… — Unknown Author
...the world needs to face up to the challenge of climate change, and to do so now. It is clear that climate change poses an… — Gordon Brown
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming: climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global response — Nicholas Stern
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. — Tom Peters
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and… — Jonathan Sacks
We are forced to choose, for the processes we have initiated in our lifetime cannot continue in the lifetime of our children. Whatever we do… — Ervin Laszlo
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an… — George Washington
A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but… — Calvin Coolidge
Effective people stay out of Quadrants III and IV because, urgent or not, they aren't important. They also shrink Quadrant I down to size by… — Stephen Covey
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board… — Kate Millett

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