Quotes About Priorities

Ben thought that was how you could tell the difference between most people. It wasn't I'm a dog person and I'm a cat person or I'm a Chiefs fan and I'm a Broncos guy. It was whether you cared about quarters. To him, four quarters was a dollar. A stack of quarters was lunch. The amount of quarters those little shits threw out the window that day could have bought him half a pair of jeans.

How about diamonds are a girl's best friends? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.

It's a shame that money has to enter into everything.

People who would never touch a drop of alcohol can be among the most serious work addicts.

Incidentally, what most often interrupts my own prayers is not great distractions but tiny ones—things one will have to do or avoid in the course of the next hour.4

Jesus was aware of where true importance lies, where the priorities are. And where your priorities are, there your time will be.

I was afraid of burglars and Indian thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take-over bid and a premature retirement and the Deuil du Roy Albert.

We can spend countless money on war and hatred but we cannot even scrap up the funds to save the lungs of our planet

CYCLOPS: Emma… I knew you wouldn't turn your back on us. EMMA: Sweet as you are, I didn't come back for you Scott. I came for my handbag. Lucky for you, this is a Louis Vuitton.

There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is using money as an excuse not to marry you, it's your relationship that's insecure, not his bank account.

you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.

Maybe this is just me, because my priorities have changed as I've gotten older. But now I don't want to be 'sort of dating' someone. I don't want to be 'kinda hanging out' with someone. I don't want to spend a lot of energy suppressing all my feelings so I appear uninvolved. I want to be involved.

wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted. And when you do move on and find your right person, believe me, you're not going to wish you had gotten to spend more time with Stinky the Time-Waster or Freddy Can't-Remember-to-Call.

Busy" is another word for "asshole.

I'm about to make a wild, extreme, and severe relationship rule: the word "busy" is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes.

I'd come home after eighteen hours of looking at murdered children and she'd be upset that the new drapes for the living room didn't quite match the carpet. I tried more than once to explain it to her, but when I told the unvarnished truth, she didn't want to know. Who would, if they didn't have to? She had to shut all that out, and I got shut out with it.

Black money runs through the fingers faster than legal, hard-earned money. If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

I'm not doing a spectacular job of looking after myself. I don't know how I could look after a kid.

the promise to "forsake all others" includes all those entanglements, friendships, family-of-origin commitments, career opportunities, and community involvements that do not serve to increase either the physical and mental health of each spouse or the intimacy of the marriage.

In order for your marriage to become that great love story there are certain things you need to establish in your early years together because relationships tend to build and grow on precedent.

World records at 19. I don't want that. Later, yes. And when it comes, I'll learn to live with it, but it won't be my first love.

I'd rather be in a good position in the playoffs and holding up a World Series trophy than holding up an MVP trophy.