Quotes About Priorities

I didn't show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

We know there are no weapons of mass destruction. But there are weapons of misdirection. Millions without health insurance, poverty abounds. For war, billions more, but no more for the poor.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

What I'm trying to say is, as I get older, all the things I've done to make money have become less important in my life. I'm proud of the company. I've built it up from nothing and I'm sure as hell not going to stand by and watch it get eaten up. But when I'm sitting out on the patio on a Sunday afternoon and I start counting my blessings, it's the people I love that come to my mind, not the company.

Family is family, and business is business. I love the boy, but not that much." "Who are you kidding?" Heath had said. "You'd walk over coals for him." "Yes, but I'd leave my checkbook behind while I was doing it.

Lani regarded smudged mascara as a worse catastrophe than nuclear holocaust.

I skipped a class because his old college friends were in town. Then I was late for a rehearsal because he was getting an award. He had an open slot in his schedule, and we'd talked about taking a vacation together. I was about to turn down a concert when I finally woke up and realized I was losing myself.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.

Giving up one activity does not guarantee you will take up a more worthy substitute.

He took a deep breath, glanced at the mountains, then looked at Dean again. Alex: It doesn't matter if you think you're made to have kids, or not, marriage or not. If you've found someone who makes you want all those things, then you don't let the chance go by. (Chapter 14)

we are all on the road that leads to the edge of our mortality. Life is too brief to waste a minute of it chasing after things that don't matter.

In Henry David Thoreau's Walden, written during his year in a one-room cabin with few possessions, is this quote: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life that is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.

And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.