Quotes About Priorities

I caught his drift, but I wasn't going to argue for a single second. Just get me to the Hampshire House, that's all I cared about. Besides, how could I say, No, I'm not a prositute. I'm Mrs. Frank Sinatra out for an early morning walk in the rain?

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

I think it's a worthy undertaking--to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole.

Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.

Sessant'anni prima aveva più speranze, ma dormiva in un letto gelato. Cosa scegliere tra i sogni e il termosifone?

Haven't you enough money?' For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.

Dharma practice is founded on resolve. This is not an emotional conversion, a devastating realization of the error of our ways, a desperate urge to be good, but an ongoing, heartfelt reflection on priorities, values, and purpose. We need to keep taking stock of our life in an unsentimental, uncompromising way.

I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

I don't know if it's good or bad. I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do. I just don't know.

I don't know if it's better to have your kids be happy and not go to college. I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life than you do.

We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.

Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance.

Sebastian tried not to look too far ahead. Ambition was a young man's game. Theses days he was more concerned with the continuing survival and security of those he loved. It was no longer so much a matter of dreaming how high he might climb, as of always keeping in mind how far they might fall.

When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

Cuando te enfrentas a la posibilidad de una muerte temprana, te das cuenta de que hay muchas cosas que quieres hacer antes de que tu vida termine.

In Britain, people don't seem too worried about a possible end twenty billion years in the future. You can do quite a lot of eating, drinking and being merry before that.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do".

He was the sort of man who demanded results yesterday but then forgot to ask for them tomorrow.

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they don't have time to read. This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

Why is it that so many people think all the answers are in their wallet?