54 Priority Quotes

The number of casualties will be more than any of us can bear ultimately. And I don't think we want to speculate on the number of casualties. The effort now has to be to save as many people as possible.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

'For NASA, space is still a high priority.'

Seek the strongest Color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination.

Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.

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

I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something.'

'Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.'

'How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put first things first and act proper?'

Pitching always beats batting -- and vice-versa.

I believe global warming is grossly exaggerated as a problem. It's a real problem, but it's nothing like as serious as people are led to believe. The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. It distracts people's attention from much more serious problems.

The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.

My business is to get the world saved. If this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories and the staying of the sailing ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted, they can go on again.

Go for souls and go for the worst.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of Time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this World. Time is what we want most, but what, alas! we use worst; and for which God will certainly most strictly reckon with us, when Time shall be no more.

I am a patient man - always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance; and also to give ample time for repentance. Still I must save this government if possible.

I could do without many things with no hardship - you are not one of them.

Ad Graecas literas totum animum applicui; statimque, ut pecuniam accpero, Graecus primum autores, deinde vestes emam.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

In Beauty's dwelling all things fair, And rich, to win her sweet smiles strove; But still young Beauty's only care Was, to watch o'er the lamp of Love.

The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.

He is a Presbyterian first and an artist second, which is just as comfortable as trying to be a Presbyterian first and a chorus girl second.

Who lesethe his fredam, in faith! he loseth all.

When the constitution is openly invaded, when the first original right of the people, from which all laws derive their authority, is directly attacked, inferior grievances naturally lose their force, and are suffered to pass by without punishment or observation.

Just one thing in it: Me or him. Just one thing in it: Me or him. And I love life!

'All the technique in the world don't mean shit if it don't sound right.'

She's absolutely gorgeous. Heather and I are having a wonderful time. I could go on for hours and drag the photographs out, but I'd never get back to the studio.

On the street. I was talking to you and you found something better to do. ~ 'Carlos (Don't Let It Go To Your Head)

Education is my first priority.

Education comes before anything.

So little time, so much to do.

There have been men before : who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself: as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.

However important the struggle is and however much misery and poverty and degradation exist, we know that it cannot be more important than one human life.

My soldiers can eat their waist belts, but my tanks need gas.

And when a lady's in the case, You know all other things give place.

George Dillon: It's easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

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

I can't think about your miserable violin when I am speaking to my God!

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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