Quotes About Priorities

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

I decided that it's either, you know, if I want to have children, have a family and - and live a long life, I've got to make some real, real serious changes.

My senior year I was basically supporting myself, so it was like, Do you want to eat and pay the rent, or do you want to go to school? I wanted to eat and pay the rent.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

If you have kids and stuff what kind of dad do I wanna be for my kids, and what kind of mom do I want them to have

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.'

I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.

There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would want that job at all. Although I would be able to play golf which I don't seem to have time now.

The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.