Quotes About Priorities

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money. —Albert Einstein

not money or prestige, should be regarded as the ultimate currency—the currency by which we take measure of our lives.

We no longer accumulate to live; we live to accumulate.

Tris: What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves? Rosethorn: Ask me if I care what you want.

Ishabal: If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles? Tris: Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.

Once you've helped your daughter give birth to your first grandson, believe me, things like proper dinnerwear aren't important.

Spending the next nine hours with a crying woman wal real close to the top of his Avoid at All Costs list right under untimely death and a desk job.

There is my first insight, young woman. Always downplay the value of money; it will make it much easier for him to hand it over.

What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education is figuring out the hard way that at a school like Columbia, what you read isn't nearly as important as what you wear, how you look, and how much you know about sucking up to professors who really couldn't give a shit about whether some nameless, faceless kid in the 23rd row will work or starve after graduation.

During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we've come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

I've never minded being disciplined. I'd always rather have a quiet evening in than go to a wild party. Discipline for me has always been the foundation which leaves me free to fly.

I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness.

She runs her hands over her hipbones and her ribs, stark even under her nightgown, and she thinks about how crazy she was not to appreciate it. How stupid she was all her life not to eat the French Fries and vanilla Cokes. As if her slimness and beauty were the most valuable things she could ever own.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Once upon a time, I'd thought demon-hunting was hard. But that was before I'd become a mom. Trust me. In comparison to parenting, stalking and killing demons is a piece of cake.

having a list is all peaches and cream, as long as you remember that life usually gets in the way.

time has become a currency, which we "spend" instead of "pass." Many of us need to relax, to unwind, and, yes, to work less.2

En la calle la gente estaba a otras cosas. Las suyas, las que les importaban. Nada que ver con las mías, que de conocerlas les parecerían una estupidez.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.