Quotes About Priorities

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

People say it is not the key to happiness, but I have always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made.

At twenty-nine you can't waste your time reading.

I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about, all of them talking, a stack of books in one arm, a mass of student papers in the other, seven committee reports wedged in between, as well as her small daughter in a backpack, and she was looking surreptitiously at her watch. So I went on reading and taking notes.

You'll never see a hearse towing a U-Haul.

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

She said she thought there were different ways of loving someone, and there were some she used to think were the most important, and now she had changed her mind.

The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)

This may sound terribly selfish, but I love the freedom I have. I don't have to worry about a man's wardrobe, or his relatives, or his schedule, or his menu, or his allergies. I would not be married again.

Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" —PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?" Pema Chodron

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.

Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'

Yet, in reality, Ted loved things more than he loved people. He could find life in an abandoned bicycle or an old car, and feel a kind of compassion for these inanimate objects, more compassion than he could ever feel for another human being.

I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.

Like too many of us, I mistook a busy life for a rich one.