Quotes About Priorities

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I can't afford to die I'd lose too much money.

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

I learned that sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind." My

You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.

In this life each of us must decide three things for ourselves: who to worship, who to marry, and who to serve.

AparÈ›ineau acelei clase din marea burghezie francez? care prefera s?-È™i vad? copiii f?r? pâine, f?r? carne È™i aer decât f?r? diplome...

De tilhørte nemlig den klassen av det franske høyborgerskapet som heller vil se barna sine uten brød, kjøtt og luft enn uten eksamenspapirer.

Christian charity, the compassion of centuries of civilization, fell from her like useless ornaments, revealing her bare, arid soul. She needed to feed and protect her children. Nothing else mattered any more.

Cómo había que apresurarse en vivir, Dios mío, en agradar a los hombres, en amar... El dinero, los vestidos y los coches bonitos, ¿de qué servía todo eso sin un hombre en tu vida, un pretendiente, un joven amante?

As she points out, leaving behind the rush-hour commute, corporate politics, and a relentless BlackBerry that never slept was no sacrifice.

Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.

Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run.

If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin myself permanently inside closed quarters with a smoker? Never. Never. Never. Beauty wouldn't count, sweetness wouldn't count, suitability in every other respect wouldn't count.

We were never under any delusions as to which was more important, an individual or humanity.