Quotes About Priorities

But who listened to mothers when your cock was on fire?

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.

While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

For people like this life is just about stuff. Having more than your neighbor and never enough. For these types of folks it's all about fortune and fame. What pays off is good, what does not is lame. So they don't and they won't and they can't understand. It's wisdom, not money that makes life grand.

Marriage has just never interested me.

Jessie reached for 'Ten Bright Ideas to Light Up Your Sales'. It was on her bedside table, right next to 'Charlotte's Web'. Jessie's hand hovered. She looked longingly at Wilbur and Fern watching Charlotte hanging b a thread. But this was war, and she couldn't stop to read for fun.

if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much." — Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Did money give people a blind spot? Rob them of their hearing?

And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you've done . . . the wasted minutes you'll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It's the only thing you can never get

Money is definitely needed, but how much money do we really need? If we would change our idea of a successful life to a joyful life, we would find our need for money would dramatically decrease.

Most people are investing their whole lifetime just for their material well-being. Dying to live, this is called.

she talked in one of her memoirs of ignoring her little brother when she was supposed to be looking after him: "I liked reading a book much more than I liked looking after him (and even now I like reading a book more than I like looking after my own children...)

For my mother would never come to see that perhaps my needs were more important than her wishes.

if all the things she wanted to save in the world were saved, she might find herself in reduced circumstances; I couldn't bring myself to ask her to examine Lewis's daily conversations with his stockbroker, to see if they bore any relation to the things she saw passing away forever before her eyes.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.

It always hurts the gringo more to lose his money than his life.

Why doesn't Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that's where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it's the key to solving some of the world's biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world's biggest problems.

It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I was in medical school and, by the time I graduated, I realized that writing was more exciting to me than being a doctor. And if I tried to be a doctor and a writer, then both would suffer.

Public status of partner and/or father without the sacrifices

What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well?