Quotes About Priorities

I'm one of those actresses that really enjoys staying home with my children. To be told you've got to get to work, it is just unbelievable what it does to you.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

I never grew up dreaming about a wedding - I don't think about things like that. I don't know how to explain it. All I care about is to be happy.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

Money can't buy love, but it can buy a woman's attention.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.