Quotes for Urgency

In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not justify torture. The United States must be held to a higher standard than our enemies, yet some of our actions did not clear that bar.

Dianne Feinstein

We need to address hunger, job training, justice. I can't do it alone. We need to elect people who understand the urgency.

Marcia Fudge

I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book.

Leonard Cohen

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

Phil Elverum

In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.

Wendy Kopp

I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

John Ortberg

In the not-for-profit world, there can be wastefulness because there's not the desperate urgency of when you're on a clock.

Twyla Tharp

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

DeRay Mckesson

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Frank McCourt

Under President Obama, we saw an unwarranted extension of amnesty programs which neglected the root of the illegal immigration crisis. We saw a troubling lack of urgency in addressing the sanctuary cities which subvert the rule of law.

Luther Strange

The Paris Agreement underlines the urgency to implement climate action in support of sustainable development.

Tedros Adhanom

I spent two years in Cairo, and I felt a certain urgency about trying to understand the region and the conflict here, in the modest way that a journalist might be able to try and shed some understanding and enlightenment on a region that is profoundly conflicted, and a conflict that has real consequences for Americans.

Lawrence Wright

SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.

Margaret Chan

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

Jimmy Butler

I think with any art making, there's a sense of urgency that you have for people to understand you.

Michelle Zauner

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Al Gore

We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.

Astrid Berges-Frisbey

PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.

Romeo Dallaire

I think that college football is still a sport where fans really feel urgency every week.

Kirk Herbstreit

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

Francis Chan