Quotes About Priorities

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.

Uopšte, izgleda da je ovom sadašnjem naraštaju više stalo do njegovog shvatanja o životu nego do života samog.

I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

Roarke: Pull yourself together, Eve. He was already in a business suit, his hair shining and sleek... Eve: How come you already are? Roarke: Because staying in bed half the morning unless sex is involved is a waste of time. Since you didn't appear to be cooperative in that area, I started my day with coffee instead

EVE WASN'T SURE WHAT IT SAID ABOUT HER that she was more comfortable in the morgue than in a baby boutique.

At least I'm not asking you to go to six o'clock Mass with me in the morning." "Darling Eve, to get me to do that the amount and variety of the sexual favors required are so many and myriad even my imagination boggles." "I don't think you can exchange sexual favors for Mass attendance. But if I decide to go check it out, and I get the chance, I'll ask the priest.

Now that I'm a mother I understand being one means the most important thing in the world is keeping your child safe, well, happy.

The humanities the core of the university. She may be an outsider, but if she were asked to name the core of the university today, its core discipline, she would say it was moneymaking. That is how it looks from Melbourne, Victoria; and she would not be surprised if the same were the case in Johannesburg, South Africa.

To lie in a woman's arms in a proper bed, to have good food to eat, to walk in the sun - how much more important these seem than the right to decide without advice from the police who should be my friends and who my enemies! (p 96)

Qué suerte no tener hijos, pensó: qué suerte no desear ser padre. No sabría qué hacer aquí, en lo más profundo del país, con un niño que necesitaría leche, ropa, amigos y un colegio. No cumpliría con mi deber, sería el peor de los padres. En cambio no es difícil vivir una vida que consiste únicamente en pasar el tiempo.

Tohr shook his head. If you're going to get plastered, why can't you do it like areal man. I like the taste of fruit. You are what you drink. The angel glanced up at the clock, Shit. I missed Maury. But, I DVR'd Ellen.

Life has gotten in the way of our life.

Then again, when you were facing the right person? None of the things they talked about on television, no Vera Wang dress, no champagne waterfall, no DJ or place setting or party favor mattered. "'I

Shut the door behind you. Or don't. I don't give a fuck. But if I don't leave now, I'm going to have to explain to Elise why I killed you, and I'd rather talk about her class schedule." —

Supposed to in one hand, s*** in the other; see what you get the most of- V to Rhage

Stuff was nice. Love was better. Refocusing on Novo, he said, "I would rather be in a hovel with you than a castle with anybody else.

Okay, why couldn't he just be drinking right now? Still, bassinet jockeying one of these pooping machines had to be better than dodging bullets. Right? V glanced at the matched set of milk addicts. Fine, maybe the goo-goo, gaga/Glock assessment was more of a fifty-fifty.

Men just weren't that high on her list of priorities. They ranked somewhere down around getting her teeth cleaned and having her car serviced. And she didn't have a car anymore.

Possessions weren't the thing. The car your drove and the house you lived in and the clothes you wore...were nothing but vocabulary. They weren't the true communication that mattered, they weren't the connections that were important.

You know, you were never the possessive type before." "That's because I never had something I wanted to keep.

Cuando uno está inconsciente, o sedado, o a punto de llamar a las puertas del Ocaso, la perspectiva es diferente. Y la noción del tiempo cambia, como cambian las prioridades, la idea de lo que de verdad importa o no importa.

Mom, I don't care if you're dating the guy who picks up our garbage, as long as he's nice to you.

I am always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money.

i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.