Mixed Up Priorities Quotes & Sayings

When you down and out don't nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya. — Lil Boosie

Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi once called the 'grey zone' of human affairs, described by the historian Christopher Browning as that foggy universe of mixed motives, conflicting emotions, personal priorities, reluctant choices, opportunism and accomodation, all wedded, when convenient, to self-deception and denial. I thought that by marshalling his research into an overly narrow narrative, painted without nuance in black and white, the author had missed the human complexity and the ordinariness of racism. — Erna Paris

When you're supposed to be working, work, and when you're supposed to be playing, play. It's a weird tightrope you're walking, but it's only when you get your priorities mixed up that things fall apart. — Gary Keller

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest. — Dan Simmons

He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his cabbage. — Publilius Syrus

There are moments in life, and they happen so infrequently that they tend to really stand out, when life hands you the gift of perspective. Sometimes, we forget to show our appreciation. Sometimes, we get our priorities mixed up. And, sometimes, we forget how far we've come. But life always has a way of nudging you to remind you about these important things. — Cassia Leo

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing. — Deirdre O'Kane

The less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate. — Jessica Livingston