Quotes About Priorities

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

A generation ago, fun wasn't a deciding factor when we talked about career choices. Jobs aren't supposed to be fun. They're supposed to bring home the bacon. Fun is what you do on your off days. Fun happens in the evenings and weekends. But if your job isn't fun, as we've come to realize, you don't do a fantastic job at it.

A man must be forced to choose. It is only when you are forced to choose that you know what is important to you.

He said you could tell about a person not from what he believed but by what worried him.

Twenty-five percent of the people polled in a recent national inquiry into American morality said that for $10 million they would abandon their entire family; a large number of people are evidently willing to do the same thing for free. Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were

Better to be screwed physically than financially.

If Hunter hadn't been there, I would've picked up the phone to call Eric. I would've asked him to bring a shovel and come to help me dig a body up. That was what a boyfriend should do, right? But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd ask Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

She's lazy. That extends to her friendships. If it's easy to be friendly, she will be. If the wind blows the other way, her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right, by hating others.

We survived,(…) And my brother got married to the woman he loves. And that's all that's important.' 'Sam, do you really think that?'(…) 'Nah. But what would you say the moral of the day was? There was a lot of hate, there was some love. The love won out for Craig, the hate did Jim Collins in.

that belonged in the big pile of things that weren't my problem.

Honey, we have other things to think about," I said, forcing myself to smile, forcing myself to sound calm. One corner of my brain pictured a pink ambulance screeching to a halt outside to disgorge emergency beauticians with cases of scissors, combs, and hair spray. "Dealing with a little hair damage can wait until tomorrow. It's a lot more important to find out who did this and why.

I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.

For me, it's comfort over style always, ladies!

I'm never gonna date again, because I can't imagine meeting a woman that's good enough for my daughters.

Actually, nobody has ever given me an award, and also, it's not really important in my life. I go to these award shows for meeting my friends.

When you're playing football, and your enemies are there, you don't have a lot of time to think to yourself. You've got stuff to handle. You've got places to be, meetings to go to, bigger fish to fry. You really don't attack the emotional side of your life.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

I am not a robot; I am a member of a family - my commitment to them comes over and above my commitment to cycling.

My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.

I bought everyone in my family a car, I bought my mum a convertible Mercedes. I bought a studio at a ridiculous cost - just insane.

I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

I don't get time to read often - the last hour before bed is somehow always spent clearing up the day's mess instead.