Quotes About Priorities

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

and it don't never matter how poor you are as long as you've got something to love.

Sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air... They don't seem half so important

There are some people, sez I, that can't hear anything because of the jingle in their pocket.

Girls, sometimes I feel as if those exams meant everything, but when I look at the big buds swelling on those chestnut trees and the misty blue air at the end of the streets they don't seem half so important.

There are things far more valuable than private comfort or public admiration.

The choice before us is rather stark: either live to be comfortable (both internally and externally, but especially internally), or live to know God. We can't have it both ways. One choice excludes the other. P91

I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.

Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't you go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business. If I ever run into Blue Duck I'll kill

He doesn't talk much, though, she added. I don't care whether he talks or not, Lorena said. I wouldn't marry a man just for conversation. I'd rather read and having to know how than listen to some man talk.

A man that sleeps all night wastes too much of life.

Son, this is a sad thing," Augustus said. "Loss of life always is. But the life is lost for good. Don't go attempting vengeance. You've got more urgent business… Don't be trying to give back pain for pain.

Once you got rich you'd have to spend all your time staying rich, and that's hard thankless work. I tried it a while and quit, myself. If I can keep ten dollars ahead of the bills I'll be doin' all right.

What part of a man is it best to shoot at?" asked Sean. "His horse," said Jake.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

Because it puts it ultimately in our hands, doesn't it? What we choose to live with, and what we choose to live without.

I kind of think you could probably say the same thing about people. At the end of the day, one thing defines them." "What defines you?" I said. "What defines you?" he said. I smiled. "I asked you first." He smiled back at me. He smiled, that smile. "Okay, fine," he said. Then he didn't hesitate, not for a second. "There is nothing I wouldn't do for my daughter.

Renegó como nunca de sus maestros y de su mamá por no haberle dicho en ninguna ocasión lo que se tenía que hacer en un parto. De qué le servía en ese momento saber los nombres de los planetas y el manual de Carreño de pe a pa si su hermana estaba a punto de morir y ella no podía ayudarla.

Thou art a fool," she murmured instead, "to think a man can serve two masters." She lifted a varvel and let it fall against his armor, smiling. "A splendid fool. Come into my service to stay, be it thy desire.

donna madonna, there's always mañana

You don't build the life you want by saving time. You build the life you want, and then time saves itself. Recognizing that is what makes success possible.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.