Quotes About Priorities

Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

I don't. If it mattered to me even one bit, I wouldn't be here with you, Nakano-san!

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

The only place where abundance is warranted is in nature. A person who wastes is a person who insults the gods. In light of the waste encountered in the modern world, one wonders if anyone knows that there is a world outside of this abundance where people are aware of priorities other than materialism.

Her life's work was a fantastical pipe dream to the backers who had sanctioned the project but were now cutting back on what they considered frivolous expenditures.

You went for bronze over brains.

Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

All that money can buy you is a certain amount of time or leisure with which to do the things you want to do.

How can you love a woman in your arms if you are busy holding another one in your dreams?

Que hoy parezcan importarnos más los líos de faldas de nuestros gobernantes que, digamos, el renacimiento del racismo en Alemania o la libre escogencia en materia de aborto en los EEUU, no es porque tengamos vocación de "tierrúos", sino porque lo somos.

Oi que series capaç de qualsevol cosa per conservar la teva tranquil·litat? Oi que ho sacrifiques tot, absolutament tot, a la teva manera de viure sense maldecaps, sense ideals?

No és el mateix, Domènec. Jo sacrifico la meva persona, i per això tinc dret a sacrificar els qui estimo. Tu, en canvi, sacrifiques els qui dius que estimes sense sacrificar-te tu mateix.

Mientras dure la lucha, que durará tal vez toda mi vida, no me conviene cultivar los placeres de los sentidos, ¿te das cuenta?, porque son, de verdad, secundarios para mí. El gran placer es otro, el de saber que estoy al servicio de lo más noble, que es… bueno… todas mis ideas…

How different would your life be if you lived as if today were your last?

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

On ne peut pas tout vivre, alors l'important est de vivre l'essentiel, et chacun de nous a "son essentiel".

Je vais te dire pourquoi je suis "serein", comme tu dis. Parce que l'on ne peut pas tout vivre, alors l'important est de vivre l'essentiel et chacun de nous a "son essentiel".

I gave up pouring my heart out to his personal assistant a long time ago. Talking to the man himself is damn near impossible. Always on a business trip or in a meeting. No way he'd make time for his daughter.

to say nothing of the demands placed on students by sports programs and other extracurricular activities. All of this runs the risk of interfering with naps and early bedtimes for children, ironically making it more difficult for them to learn.

In most women's lives, everything, even the greatest sorrow, comes down to a question of 'I haven't got a thing to wear'.

Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.