Quotes About Priorities

I was bored to death and thinking more about the minibar and the after-show party than the performance.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

Life is short enough, there is nothing worth here to take your life, and those things we do gain can never be taken to our grave.

But the fact is, as one grows close to death, the only thing that matters is family. I hope you can see that.

I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

She who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.

Last breath is rare, therefore expensive. However, we prefer to stay poor ... (Dernier soupir est rare, donc cher. - Pourtant, on préfère rester pauvre...)

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.

What is Divine duty compared to the kiss of a women...what is Destiny compared to the soft touch of a lady....what is the will of a God compared to the eyes and voice of the one you love.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

QUOTES BOUQUET: Three Things You Should Never Sacrifice: Family, Heart And Dignity

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.

If you want to follow your dreams, you have to say no to all the alternatives.