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Quotes About Priorities

It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground, he said, than to send petitions to a president.
~ Milan Kundera
A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of being allowed to pursue something higher- stores up great reserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over their books.
~ Milan Kundera
They love their bodies. We neglected ours. They love to travel. We stayed put. They love adventure. We spent all our time at meetings. They love jazz. We were satisfied with pale imitations of folk music. They're interested in themselves. We wanted to save the world and with our messianic vision nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their egotism will be the ones to save it.
~ Milan Kundera
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
~ Milan Kundera
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. It seemed to me that this single, most important position was my love.
~ Milan Kundera
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
~ Miles Davis
Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.
~ Nora Roberts
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
~ Norah Jones
I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.
~ Pat Benatar
Marrying the first person who offers you a decent position in society. Love can wait.
~ Paulo Coelho
But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.
~ Philippa Gregory
I really needed to have something in my life, because I realized there were other things more important than my career. So I love having my children and my family.
~ Olivia Williams
If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
~ Oprah Winfrey
I couldn't love fashion more, like I don't think it's possible to love fashion more. I will say, since I've had my son ... he has surpassed that love
~ Rachel Zoe
The fact is, you can say you love God and sing that you trust God and put him first, but your checkbook is where you can show just how much God's grace means to you.
~ Rick Warren
But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
~ Robert Fulghum
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
~ Robert Herrick
What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.
~ Rufus Wainwright
There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that.
~ Ryan Cabrera
The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.
~ Samuel Johnson
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
~ Thomas A. Edison
The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.
~ Timothy Keller
I still love coming home, but home is where the heart is. I take those whom I love most with me. That's my number one. My number two is being ready.
~ Tony Robbins