Quotes About Priorities

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

I work six months and get three or four with the family.

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great things.

Mais, après avoir accordé un sourire à ce roman d'autrefois, il revint aussitôt à l'unique objet de ses préoccupations actuelles.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

I don't care about money.

If you see your neighbor's beard on fire, water your own. --Martinique proverb

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?

But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

They were both fomidable, but they were also the two people he cared most about in the world-Worlds-and he just wanted to carry them safley forward to the future he imagined, in which no one's life was at stake and the hardest decision of any given day might be what to eat for breakfast, or where to make love.

Non introdurre dentro di sé niente che non sia necessario. Niente veleni o sostanze chimiche, nessun vapore o fumo o alcol, nessun oggetto tagliente, nessun ago che non sia essenziale – droga o tatuaggio – e… nemmeno peni che non siano essenziali.

Ia tak mengerti kenapa banyak sekali teman-temannya buang-buang uang begitu banyak untuk membeli aneka beha dan celana dalam ajaib yang toh akan ditanggalkan juga dalam waktu sekejab.

do I want to spend my days? How much time do I think I have?" Her expertise

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

I see that even as the world plunges into darkness and peril, you two stand around discussing your love lives. Teenagers.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.