Urgent Quotes

321 Urgent quotes by 273 unique authors

It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent… — Paul Valery
The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible… — Billy Graham
Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated pretty clearly that… — Edward Norton
You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look… — Pope Francis
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. — Milton Friedman
The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join… — Al Gore
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the… — Stanislav Grof
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent… — Umberto Eco
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. — Albert Einstein
Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent. — Havelock Ellis
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win… — Gerald R. Ford
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet. — Jack Herer
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem. — Zora Neale Hurston
There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as… — Naveen Jain
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he… — Louis Kahn
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists… — Donald Knuth
We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent. — Joyce Meyer
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available.… — Phil Ochs
I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A… — Shimon Peres
To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few… — James Surowiecki
By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall… — Matt Taibbi

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