Quotes About Priorities

Achieving is the most important thing to you. It's more important than love, Bess said when she was fifteen years old. And wow—Ursula had felt that comment like a slap to the face. Bess has mellowed as she's gotten

Except there was no time for recriminations now, was there? Not with Will's life and Elizabeth's crown on the line.

Marianne Moore] once remarked, after a visit to her brother and his family, that the state of being married and having children had one enormous advantage: "One never has to worry about whether one is doing the right thing or not. There isn't time. One is always having to go to the market or drive the children somewhere. There isn't time to wonder 'Is this right or isn't it?

Education is not so important as people think.

A living dog's better than a dead lion.

Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you've set and followed your priorities.

Shhh." He put a finger to her lips. "Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you. A little girl with your hair and eyes would've been the delight of my life. But it is you that I want primarily, not mythical children. I can survive the loss of something I've never had. I cannot survive losing you. (Winter Makepeace)

I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

Men will consider deeply before they buy a tie or choose a meal; but when it comes to throwing aside their purpose in life, possibly life itself, they do not think at all. They consent to be marshalled, controlled, exposed to unimagined shock, mutilation and death, with barely a tremor, and their reasons for complying, if indeed they have any, would comparen most shamefully with their reasons for doing anything else.

If people had to spend all of every day getting enough food to eat like animals, they wouldn't have time to make aeroplanes or bombs.

All you ever care about is money. That's all that matters to you! The only thing you understand is money, what a thing is worth in money.

When I'd asked her about what she might like to happen after she died, she said, "I plan to die on trash night, so I can be put out in a Hefty bag." Also, she was a cheapskate: She disapproved of spending on the dead what could go to the living.

It had been said that the art of successful marriage lay in choosing the person you could live with rather than the person you couldn't live without.

I only have one tip on how to stop an argument. Decide that "Feeling Good" is far more important than "Being Right!

I would give it all up, all the success I have had as a writer, all of it I would give up—in a heartbeat I would give it up—for a family that was together and children who knew they were dearly loved by both their parents who had stayed together and who loved each other too.

would give it all up, all the success I have had as a writer, all of it I would give up—in a heartbeat I would give it up—for a family that was together and children who knew they were dearly loved by both their parents who had stayed together and who loved each other too.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go.

Man kann jemanden wahnsinnig lieben und muss doch um acht Uhr früh aufstehen, nicht wahr?

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

How much are the Lord's people losing today because of their acceptance of the world's favors! Unto how few can the Lord

Samobójcy doszli wspólnie do wniosku, ?e chocia? ?mier? jest w ?yciu najwa?niejsz? spraw?, to w ko?cu nie jest ona a? tak bardzo wa?na.