Quotes About Priorities

Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet.

I was with someone at 19, and I was married at 23, and I didn't want kids when I was in my 20s.

Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

I would never marry for feelings and love.

More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a sheet of paper with signatures make? If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer, she said simply.

Money isn't enough. Happiness takes more than a padded bank account.

It never ceases to amaze me," [Chrestomanci] said, "the way people always manage to worry about the wrong things. My dear sir, do you realise that you, your son, and four of your pupils, are all likely to be burnt unless we do something? And here are you worrying about timetables.

All the love in the world doesn't put food on the table.

There are too many silly rules in our lives," she said, "and our lives are far too short to pay attention to them.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

pasaul? ir p?r?k daudz gr?matu, lai t?s izlas?tu vienas dz?ves laik?; kaut kur ir j?novelk sv?tra.

And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over the anonymous stranger with his hand on the lever. Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life. Of course. Unlike Miss Winter, I had been ashamed to say so.

I'm not sure if Mehta knows this. One thing he does know are the left's political priorities, and he shows by this statement that he's willing to go to bat for them, even where it makes no sense. That's why this Asian Indian guy puts on a sombrero.

Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving.

My life is either/or. Either I chew regular gum or I chew sugarless gum. Either I chew gum or I smoke. Either I smoke or I gain weight. Either I gain weight or I run up the stadium step.' 'Sounds like a boring life.' 'I hope it lasts forever,' she said.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

Relationships matter. They matter as much as exercise and nutrition. And not all relationships help us reach our goals. God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused language at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption.