Quotes About Priorities

I don't love traveling, because I'm never home. It's hard when you have a family.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

I only have room to do things that I have a love for in my life.

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

She'll never love you better than she loves her own children.

The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

Do what you love and don't focus on money - life's too short.

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

If the guy likes/loves you, he won't care if you are a good kisser or not. He should like you for what you are - not how you kiss.

To die for one's country? To die for love? To die for an ideology? But I say unto you that stay away from the death, stay alive!

Turning down the Lakers was tough, but it is always good to renew your vows to the loves of your life.

I'd rather be in love and have a baby than have a movie.

I love you more than the pool hall, but not as much as football.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I'de luv to kiss ya but I just washed my hair.

I also discovered that many frantically busy full-time housewives were amazed to find that they could polish off in one hour the housework that used to take them six, or was still undone at dinner time, as soon as they started studying, or working, or had some other serious interest outside the home.

Women who had once wanted careers were now making careers out of having babies.

Today you're a teen-ager, and they're supposed to have plenty of problems without borrowing extra ones. Right, Amy said. I have to find a boyfriend. And think about a career. And wear eye makeup. And learn all the new dances. And get to school on time!

In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

It seems madness to think that a society would rate marginal economic growth above a livable earth, but there you are. I had always assumed the reason to build a bigger economy was to make the world a better place. In fact, it appears, the reason to build a bigger economy is, well, to build a bigger economy.

My first rule of consumerism is never buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Most people think they want Main Streets but won't make the small sacrifices in terms of time, cost, and footpower necessary to sustain them. The sad fact is that we have created a culture in which most people will happily-indeed, unthinkingly-drive an extra couple of miles to walk thirty less feet.

By comparison, the practice of one Frank Huntington Beebe of keeping two mansions side by side—one to live in, one to decorate over and over—seems admirably restrained.