Urgent Quotes

321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors

Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are… — Julian Baggini
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and… — Margaret Chan
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake. — Ira Glass
America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and… — Mohamed El-Erian
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of… — Barack Obama
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is… — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of… — Frederic Bastiat
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is… — Jan Gehl
The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role… — David Blankenhorn
The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless… — Calvin Coolidge
The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church… — Martyn
My urgent advice to you would be, not only always to think first of America, but always, also, to think first of humanity. You do… — Woodrow Wilson
I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can… — Lev Grossman
We spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our… — Lewis Thomas
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by… — George Sand
Truth has not such an urgent air. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention. — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life when… — Jamake Highwater
If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for… — Velupillai Prabhakaran
An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The important task rarely must be done today, or even this week...But the urgent task calls for instant action...The momentary appeal of these tasks seems… — Charles Hummel
When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value. — Orrin Woodward

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