Quotes About Priorities

He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.

This is the woman I'm t' marry! Where have ye been all me life, me love? And without a blink, I replied, Don't start with me, ye scoundrel! If ye come with an empty purse, ye can leave now, fer I'd rather be unwed than unfed.

then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!" "Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable.

Dom decided that when life returned to normal—even after fourteen years, he had to think that it could—he'd follow Cole's example and treat money as easy come, easy go. People were what mattered. You couldn't replace them, and they didn't earn interest. They just slipped away a day at a time, and you had to make the most of every precious moment.

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

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

Beware the high cost of low living.

To explain that she knew how marriages worked, understood the petty grievances that could build up. She should tell Charlie that it didn't matter. That if you loved someone, you should do everything you could to make it work because the person you adored more than anyone else in the world could complain of a sore throat one day and be dead the next.

Claire hung up the phone. She thought about the hours she had spent with Adam Quinn. Hours she should've spent with her husband. Hours she would kill to have back now. There

got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.

You get to a point where you look around and you ask yourself, 'What is this doing to the rest of my family? What harm am I doing to my other children by concentrating all of my energy on rescuing this one child who will not be saved?

At least she knew where she fell on his list of priorities: right behind Betty.

Last year, the top ten pharmaceutical companies spent seventy-three billion dollars on advertising and less than twenty-nine billion on research. Tell me where their focus is.

If you're worrying about the colour of your anus, things must be good, as you can't have proper worries in your life.

For example, do we think that we have to HAVE money so we can DO the fun things in life that we want to do, so we can BE happy? In reality it's just the other way around. We are better off BE-ing first, so that we can DO, so that we can HAVE. HAVING is a natural by-product of BE-ing.

Lucinda," she finally returned most cordially, "if I were to be marooned on a desert island for the remainder of my days and must needs choose between your company and that of an organ-grinder's flea-bitten monkey, I should not hesitate a moment before opting for the latter.

What a good husband you are,' Nancy said afterward, 'always taking your wife's side rather than your mother's.' 'It's the side of reason I am on,' Teddy said. 'It just so happens that that's where you're always to be found and my mother rarely.

He that has trained his children for heaven, rather than for earth- for God rather than for man- he is the parent who will be called wise at the last.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

Men come and go but bills are forever.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.

Men are led by trifles.