Quotes About Priorities

But what master, I wonder, do you yourself serve? Money? Women? Boys? The emperor or one of his subordinates? It has to be one of them, or you wouldn't fret about such things.

And yet, while there is only the one thing we can care for and devote ourselves to, we choose instead to care about and attach ourselves to a score of others: to our bodies, to our property, to our family, friends and slaves. [15] And, being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

I told Chiquita if a man hadn't made a date with her for a Saturday night before Saturday night, he didn't want to be bothered with her on a Saturday night.

A good woman would have given her life to the care and feeding of her husband's madness. I was not a good woman. I had too many other things to do.

once becoming a mother, a woman might be radicalized in her feminism. She had a greater stake in saving the earth from male politicians. She had a greater stake in education and health, in the environment, in all social policy. She finally understood the way our society makes children and mothers the lowers of priorities. ...... I was hardly mellowed by the maternal transformation. If anything, my feminism grew more fierce.

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.

Si je m'intéresse à ce que pensent les gens cons, je n'aurai plus de temps à ce que pensent les gens intelligents.

Se mi interesso a quello che pensano i cretini, non avrò più tempo per quello che pensano le persone intelligenti.

Marriage, at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.

You should make the time. Without the touchstone of family, one leads an imbalanced life.

In 1790s ladies' debating societies were still deliberating 'In the Marriage State, which constitutes the greater Evil, Love without Money, or Money without Love?' 12

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

You don't understand. I once worked double shifts at a 7-Eleven so we could give our oldest a toy truck and a pair of pajamas when he was a baby. We can buy our kids presents and not worry about what we're gonna eat for two months. Wow. Oh my God!

Living poor gives you a really short view of the world. You live to your next meal, your next paycheck, your next birthday, your next high.

Some adjustments you made for life because you wanted to have a life.

Where the years ahead had once seemed vague and unknowable, amorphous in shape and indeterminable in size, after my mother died I began to see a set of decades stacked neatly in front of me like bricks...When I allowed myself to think of the brevity of the time ahead of me, and the futility of spending any more of it on cooking and mending and gardening, it frightened me so much that I almost couldn't breathe.