Quotes About Priorities

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

When a man's got cream in the refrigerator at home, he won't go out looking for two-percent butterfat.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures, she said. It's that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.

But even if I never bought any more clothing ever, I said, I wouldn't have enough money to buy the Picassos that I want.

Someone once asked Dad: "But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?" "For work, if you love that best," said Dad. "For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure." He looked over the top of his pince-nez. "For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.

And many of the townsfolk of Boston seem more concerned with the profit of their business than the great cause that is swirling around them.

I got rid of my motorcycle when Jimmy was born. I'm not allowed to die in a bike crash anymore.

Infidelity hurts. But when we grant it a special status in the hierarchy of marital misdemeanors, we risk allowing it to overshadow the egregious behaviors that may have preceded it or even led to it.

Falling in love, as Francesco Alberoni writes, "rearranges all our priorities, throws the superfluous overboard, projects a glaring light onto what is superficial and instantly discards it.

Craig loved being loved by me more than he loved me.

De ene mens mag de andere nooit tot middelpunt van zijn leven maken.

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Mike had seen some pretty awful things in the wars in the Middle East, I guess. He'd learned there was not too much stuff in life that needed to be taken seriously. Just the right stuff. Just enough.

I don't want my friends to be hurt and think I've dropped them but I haven't got time to sit and gossip, I've got things to do and time is precious.

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously.

when an MP told him that the public demanded all-out bombing of German civilians, especially in Berlin, Churchill replied, 'My dear sir, this is a military and not a civilian war. You and others may desire to kill women and children. We desire (and have succeeded in our desire) to destroy German military objectives. I quite appreciate your point. But my motto is "Business before pleasure.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Conqueror's glory be damned. I hadn't even managed to wash my hair in a week.

No. I've no time to waste. Winter's coming.

I just think it's amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.

As David told a friend one day, "I'm working so hard to live where we want to live that I don't actually get to live there." As

Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the wisdom that can change their lives.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?