The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.
Samuel E. Morison
TimeSpaceMindDecisionsUrgency
Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being.
John Grierson
PeoplePoliticalUrgencyMatterWell
I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.
Tony Romo
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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
Mike Wallace
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We live in a vacuous world, yet we do so with a feeling of urgency.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
LiveWorldFeelingUrgency
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
Lynn Margulis
PeopleDriveDifferencesUrgency
What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency.
George Jackson
Super BowlUrgencyUsGiveSense
While the debate over banned books usually seems to happen just outside the gates of government, it takes on a new danger and urgency when legislators get involved. Their actions cause voices to be silenced both inside and outside the books. That's un-American.
Terrance Hayes
GovernmentDebateNewUrgencyInside
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
Frank McCourt
AgeFeelYouUrgencyStaringSense
The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
Patrick Ness
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A sense of urgency is motivating.
Jen Sincero
UrgencySenseMotivating
PTSD has a terminal side to it that calls for more urgency.
Romeo Dallaire
UrgencyMoreSideTerminalCalls
For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.
Michael Paterniti
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No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.
Anthony Kennedy
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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
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Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
Ellsworth Huntington
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We are trying to motivate Christians everywhere with the love of Christ for the lost and to help them sense the urgency we must have to reach unbelievers everywhere, before it is too late for them.
Reinhard Bonnke
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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
CultureUrgencyOutToneDifferent
Achieving the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement are not a given. The world needs to understand the urgency and complexity of what the international community has embarked upon.
Patricia Espinosa
CommunityWorldUrgencyAchieving
A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.
John P. Kotter
FearComplacencyAnxietyUrgency
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
Romesh Gunesekera
TimeMeWritingUrgencyFictionAct
I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.
Dimitri Payet
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I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.
Sergio Marchionne
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We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
Les Brown
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