Quotes About Priorities

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is.

It took me a long time to get around to marriage, principally because I felt that women always wanted to have fun, and that was not my interest at all. It would interfere with my reading. That's really the truth.

So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

It's not really necessary: a ten-year-old son in St. Mark's and a seven-year-old daughter in Lamplighter, three bedrooms and three baths at one end of Beverly Drive, her station wagon, his Toronado.

I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

Napping is divine, but I no longer have all the time in the world.

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

How we treat the least of our brethren, how we treat the peasant suffering with volvulus, that's the measure of this country. Not our fighter planes or tanks, or how big the Emperor's palace happens to be.

When you look around Addis and see children barefoot and shivering in the rain, when you see the lepers begging for their next morsel, does any of that Monophysitic nonsense matter the least bit?" Matron

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

In hyperinflation, a kilo of potatoes was worth, to some, more than the family silver; a side of pork more than the grand piano. A prostitute in the family was better than an infant corpse; theft was preferable to starvation; warmth was finer than honour, clothing more essential than democracy, food more needed than freedom.

We were four friends before we started, and we made a commitment, and we made a commitment that dealing with each other fairly was more important than success.

There are many things that keep me from getting married. But there will be a time when marriage makes sense to me.

You must value the possibilities that wealth can offer you more than the pleasures that money can buy you.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

Of the growth in total national output in Germany between 1935 and 1938 almost half (47 per cent) was accounted for directly by the increase in the Reich's military spending.15 If we add investment, of which a very large part was dictated either by the priorities of autarchy or rearmament, the share rises to two-thirds (67 per cent).