Patrick Stewart Quotes

Emergency does not read the law.

Everything you do needs to be a short fuse ... not [as] an R&D problem for the sake of doing R&D ... we are looking to you for solutions ... we want them fast.

Congress doesn’t act unless there is an emergency.

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

We need to act and act now to get people out of harm's way.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.

The Ultimate decision, the fastest decision there is, is ACTION!

Sooner would be better than later, and now would be better than sooner." - Tyrion

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

If you think about the impact of climate change, [it should be how] a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for [endless] tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

There was no time to think, I just hit it

I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.

When the gun shoots, you got to go.

I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year.... My custom is, to read four to five chapters every morning immediately after rising from my bed. I employs about an hour of my time.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.

For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

Every single morning since I've been 27 years old, I've got up and someone's handed me a card like the one I have in my pocket with the schedule on it, of all the things I'm gonna do. I don't know what to do if I didn't have that card.

The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when Congressional leaders meet with the President later today, Wednesday, May the 9th, 1990. And good morning, welcome to Today. It’s a Wednesday morning, a day when the budget picture, frankly, seems gloomier than ever. It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years.