Urgent Quotes

321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors

In every bio-region, one of the most urgent tasks is to rebuild the community of naturalists - so radically depleted in recent years, as young people… — Richard Louv
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,… — George Steiner
Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization… — Philippe Starck
For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity, for… — Unknown Author
Inform yourself about animal issues, and listen to different perspectives on how to help animals. Don't latch onto the first opinion that you hear about… — Unknown Author
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country. — Vicente Fox
Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises… — Richard Land
The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And… — Stewart Brand
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
The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems… — John Berger
The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine… — Phyllis Schlafly
It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against… — Daniel Ellsberg
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our… — Albert Einstein
When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to… — Laura Chinchilla
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
Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least… — Holmes Rolston III
I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an… — Wayne White
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What… — Kwame Dawes
Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.… — Rebecca Mead
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? — Mark Poster
Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent — Jimmy Carter
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. — Ann Voskamp
The task of evangelizing all people constitutes the essential mission of the Church. It is a task and mission which the vast and profound changes… — Pope Paul VI
Don't let the urgent get in the way of the important — Kay Yow
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous… — Madison Smartt Bell

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