Quotes About Priorities

She wasn't hard-boiled. It was just that she put love on a special plane, where a man without money or looks couldn't move.

While healthy self-assertiveness requires the ability to say no, it is ultimately tested not by what we are against but by what we are for.

The tragedy of many people's lives is that, given a choice between being "right" and having an opportunity to be happy, they invariably choose being "right." That is the one ultimate satisfaction they allow themselves.

There are tensions between the agenda of a society and that of any individual that may be inevitable. Societies are primarily concerned with their own survival and perpetuation.

What did she mean, study like you're going to die? She said she spit up blood, but is that for real? Is studying really worth dying for? I couldn't accept it, and I guess that was one of my weak points.

But sometimes you get a career and then you suddenly realize you don't have a life. Or if you stay at home with your family, you suddenly realize that your life is actually everyone else's life, not your own. Either way, when you got all your eggs in one basket, the basket gets heavy. Maybe the eggs start to break.

Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing, the Admiral once said. Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.

The nation was tearing itself apart over pro-life and pro-choice but completely ignored the problems of the kids who were already here. I mean, no schools, no work, no clue if they'd even have a future. They just went nuts!

For once, the entire scythedom seemed to agree there was something afoot that was more important than food.

I shouldn't be here," I appeal to the captain, wondering if I've told him this before. "I have midterms and papers due and dirty clothes I never picked up from my bedroom floor, and I have friends, lots of friends.

who cared about the lettuce when the beef was being devoured?

I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. But for now, consider that life a part of your past.

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.

Well it's good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody'll say, 'why don't you come over for dinner?' and I can just say, 'Car won't make it.' I don't have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don't mean time to write POETRY. I mean time to lay in bed, alone, and stare up at the ceiling and not think at all, not at all, not at all…

I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I would ever do.

to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer unsolicited knocks upon the door. I need time to do my work. I will not allow you to murder my work. please understand that what keeps me alive will make me a better person toward and for you when we finally meet under easy and unstrained conditions.

as a very young man I divided an equal amount of time between the bars and the libraries; how I managed to provide for my other ordinary needs is the puzzle; well, I simply didn't bother too much with that— if I had a book or a drink then I didn't think too much of other things—fools create their own paradise.

Hay veces que un hombre tiene que luchar tanto por la vida que ni tiempo tiene de vivirla.

si un hombre no puede permitirse unos cuantos lujos es que no va a durar mucho tiempo.

You are thirty minutes late.' 'Yes.' 'Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?' 'No.' 'Why not, pray tell?' 'Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Loš ukus stvara mnogo više milionera od dobrog ukusa. Na kraju, sve se svodi na to ko je pokupio više glasova. U zemlji slepaca ?ora je kralj.

a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.