#urgency

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

#every #excited #going #i #i think

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#else #global #global warming #kyoto #process

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#fourth-generation-warfare #change

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it. ↗

— Neil Young

#jazz #me #music #rock #roll

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#doing #ever #feel #i #i do

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

Well, the oil, the oil spot, if you will, is a, is a term in counterinsurgency literature that connotes a peaceful area, secure area. So what you're trying to do is to always extend that, to push that out. ↗

— David Petraeus

#area #counterinsurgency #extend #literature #oil

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american troops #growing #insurgency #into #iraqi

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

— Frank McCourt

#advanced age #age #especially #feel #grave