Selected priorities quotes

1. That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water.

2. Always try the problem that matters most to you.

3. I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

4. The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

5. There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

6. Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

7. It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

8. There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

9. Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

10. Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

11. Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

12. Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.

13. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

14. College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

15. While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.

16. My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

17. All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.

18. I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

19. I go to bed early; my favorite dream comes on at nine.

20. The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing.

21. There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

22. The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

23. We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.

24. Sports is the toy department of human life.

25. I need physics more than friends.

26. Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.

27. Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

28. There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

29. But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and what they can even learn to like. (It just takes some people longer than others. :-)

30. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

31. Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

32. I was a woman before I was an abolitionist. I must speak for the women.

33. Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

34. I'm tired of chasing people.

35. Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

36. I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because they couldn't see the lake.

37. Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

38. Love not Pleasure; love God.

39. Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.

40. A man should never neglect his family for business.

41. 'I used to go missing quite a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.'

42. I'm not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

43. Life's too short for chess.

44. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

45. One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

46. Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

47. I have always stood for the exalting of the life that is in me over art, or any other extraneous thing.

48. Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.

49. I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

50. Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

51. I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

52. When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

53. Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later!

54. To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

55. Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

56. It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.

57. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

58. Don't ask me any more questions about Mahathir. I couldn't care less frankly whether he comes to Seattle or not next year. APEC is bigger than all of us - Australia, the United States, Malaysia, Mahathir - or any other recalcitrants.

59. Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'

60. Family is the most important thing in the world.

61. Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

62. Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

63. There was no need to do any housework at all. After four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

64. Winning the Super Bowl was a great day in my life, but that day in Jerusalem (reading the ancient Hebrew version of Matthew) was, without a doubt, the greatest day of my life!

65. All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a 'perfect society' on any foundation other than 'Women and children first!' is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep on trying.

66. Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

67. Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

68. We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.

69. COMMON GOOD BEFORE INDIVIDUAL GOOD