#urgent

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#century #change #clearly #climate #climate change

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#insurgent #pansycake #uriah #veronica-roth #funny

At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq. ↗

— Kit Bond

#built #colleagues #democratic #insurgents #introducing

I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#love

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics? ↗

— Mark Poster

#begins #late #more #more and more #politics

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#life #most #others #persistent #question

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#definitely #effort #germany #japan #might

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 coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#century #change #clear #climate #climate change

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#amnesty #attacked #considering #deal #government

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#call #honorable #i #i believe #incomparable