More Important Things Quotes

#1. Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.

Robert Gardner

#2. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#3. I could suddenly grasp that not ever having to think about what to wear was freedom, that a drastic stripping down to essentials in one's dress might also be a drastic enrichment of one's ability to focus on more important things.

Kathleen Norris

#4. There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

Dennis Lehane

#5. It is true there are more important things than dinner, but it is difficult to keep those things in mind when you haven't had dinner.

Lemony Snicket

#6. Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.

Iris Apfel

#7. Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

Dan Bejar

#8. Earlier, looking lighter or slimmer never mattered to me. Frankly, I didn't care. I had more important things to do. But when I figured that it's not that hard, and I have the time, passion and patience to take it up, I jumped onto the health-wagon. I started working out.

Kajol

#9. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.

Beth Pattillo

#10. I don't like writing romance in my books because that's the turning point of 90% of YA sci-fi/fantasy books and, quite frankly, it gets annoying after a while. The protagonist has more important things to worry about than boys and whether or not they like her.

Meghan Blistinsky

#11. Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Ang Lee

#12. I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Gordon Strachan

#13. God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

Cyndi Lauper

#14. I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.

Bernhard Langer

#15. Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth.

Shelly Laurenston

#16. I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs

A.S. King

#17. Why always repeat the same stories - husband with lover, husband with wife and sick child, husband with wife, lover, and sick child? There were more important things in the world to talk about.

Paulo Coelho

#18. If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

Bill Watterson

#19. Little, things, little things, are much more important than big things. Big things hit you in the face with their bigness and obscure the little, more important things that really define a life and provide it with delicacy. Page 113

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#20. How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not drowning. There are more important things in life than individual happiness. It was an easy trap to fall into, mistaking a lack of self-direction for an expression of love.

Lesley Lokko

#21. Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.

Ice Cube

#22. We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

Earl C. Kelley

#23. To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.

Sage Kafsky

#24. Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.

Carrie Underwood

#25. That reading is an indulgence that only serves to distract from more important things in life." This statement came from Mr. Roberts. "Such as?" Anthony asked. "Such as the improvement of oneself, of one's household and of one's business.

Sophie Barnes

#26. Try to think about more important things,' he said. 'Think about your soul, your character. Think about the freezer. It's a solid block of ice. It needs defrosting. There might a steak in there. Concentrate on things like that. There could be a meal in it.

Jonathan Ames

#27. Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do ... let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

Wilhelm Reich

#28. You're probably better at math than I am, because pretty much everyone's better at math than I am, but it's okay, I'm fine with it. See, I excel at other, more important things - guitar, sex, and consistently disappointing my dad, to name a few.

Jennifer Niven

#29. They thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things

Charles Bukowski

#30. Eugenia never wears modish gowns. She says there are more important things to think of than one's dresses.'
'What a stupid thing to say!' remarked Sophy. 'Naturally there are, but not, I hold, when one is dressing for dinner.

Georgette Heyer

#31. I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

Barbra Streisand

#32. Sometimes your instincts were wrong. Your body wants you to survive but sometimes there are more important things than just surviving.

Karina Halle

#33. I know it might sound crazy, but I feel great now, ridiculously hopeful. Sure it stinks I missed an important part of my life,but I know I'll have more important things to do. I'm still young

Amy Rankin

#34. There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

Bernhard Langer

#35. I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

Marisa Miller

#36. Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

Q'orianka Kilcher

#37. The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

Chika Anadu

#38. There are more important things in life than chasing after this myth of perfection.

Alison G. Bailey

#39. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

Iris Apfel

#40. Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

Rafael Nadal

#41. Any of us probably could do more important things than we are doing. Any of us could use some changes in our tasks. But none of us - and still stay alive and sane - could do without something to do.

L. Ron Hubbard

#42. There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

Charlie Sheen

#43. I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

Rafael Nadal

#44. You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.

Julianna Baggott

#45. I certainly don't delude myself that there aren't certainly more important things to do in life than make people laugh, but I can't imagine anything that would bring me more joy.

Bob Newhart

#46. I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

Jimmy Carr

#47. Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery.

J.K. Rowling

#48. Not this again," I moaned. "Jonathon, there are more important things in this world than me."
He looked thoughtful. "You're right," he said and I thought I might finally be getting through to him. He continued, "Chocolate gelato," he grinned.

Micalea Smeltzer

#49. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Jonathan Messinger

#50. But my secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don't wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved for way more important things. P. 202

Mindy Kaling

#51. One by one, the three picture-in-picture mini-screens drop off. They've grown tired of the geek-speak. They have more important things to do than watch the blow-by-blow engineering sausage-making.

Eduardo Suastegui

#52. Heather: In any case, it really is very kind of you to give up so much time for the children. I'm quite sure you have a thousand more important things to attend to. Sergeant Kynper: If not for them, then who the hell is it all for?

Robert Radcliffe

#53. Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love.

Amy Dumas

#54. I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

Charles Lamb

#55. There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

Agatha Christie

#56. For God's sake, girl, there are more important things on our plates than your sex life." Like mine, I silently added sheepishly.

D.T. Dyllin

#57. People have the wrong idea about the hijab,: said Zuhra with a toss of her glossy hair. I wear it because I respect myself. And when the beauty is hidden the more important things rise to the surface.

Jennifer Steil

#58. There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.

Stephanie Sigman

#59. I can't do it anymore ... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments

Colleen Hoover

#60. Is he well educated?"
"Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day of his life, same as father. He says it is all rot about 'finishing' your education. You never do. You learn more important things each day ...

Gene Stratton-Porter

#61. I can't say I'm devastated by the way I'm ignored. I guess I have more important things on my mind. The

Jodi Picoult

#62. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

Hayao Miyazaki

#63. I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

Martha Stewart

#64. One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Wallace Stevens

#65. Don't you think it would be better to legalize victimless crimes like drugs & prostitution & divert the resources to more important things like the rapes & assaults & things like that?

Larry King

#66. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.

Tucker Elliot

#67. All right, all right,' he [Leo] says. 'I know it's hilarious that Mrs. Kelly thinks I clogged up her toilet, but we have more important things to focus on.

Wendy Mass

#68. Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful.

Hermoine Granger

#69. Levels are just numbers. In this world, strength is just an illusion. There are more important things -Kirito

Reki Kawahara

#70. Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

Ed Koch

#71. I think the arts should get big support, but my country has a lot of needs more important than film. Medication, education, food ... The poverty is overwhelming. There are simply more important things to be attended to.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#72. If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

Khaled Hosseini

#73. There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.

Arden Cho

#74. It seems the older people get, the more shit they ignore. Or, like Dad, they pay attention to stuff that distracts them from the more important things that they're ignoring.

A.S. King

#75. asked Mom why they couldn't think up better street names than numbers and letters. She said everyone in Washington, D.C. had more important things to do. There wasn't enough time for street names.

TR Dillon

#76. I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#77. Oh, I have plenty of problems with Rabbit, it's just that my comfort level with his name is standing in line behind about a hundred more important things.

Elle Lothlorien

#78. I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

A.S. Byatt

#79. Harry - you're a great wizard, you know."
"I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him.
"Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

J.K. Rowling

#80. I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

Buddy Rice

#81. The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Rashid Johnson

#82. When God is regarded as a secondary matter that can be set aside temporarily or permanently on account of more important things, it is precisely these supposedly more important things that come to nothing.

Pope Benedict XVI

#83. Work often gets in the way of more important things, like writing.

Paul West

#84. While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Burton Richter

#85. One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance. All sorts of things.

Jean Rhys

#86. These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Virginia Woolf

#87. Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world,

Lucas Delattre

#88. I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Brandon Boyd

#89. There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

John Lancaster Spalding

#90. I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.

Robert MacNeil

#91. We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

Marianne Williamson

#92. There are several things that keep me grounded and focused ... When you can humble yourself to say 'I'm no more important than anyone else. I just have a gift.'

Tim Tebow

#93. When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

Louis L'Amour

#94. The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly at a piano and sing and play. It became very important to me not to lose sight of that.

Kate Bush

#95. It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.

Susan Sarandon

#96. A lover was affectionate and a husband was authoritative. His work was always way more important than his family. His work and his needs were to be accepted as uppermost in every way. She could take leave from her work for one day to take her child to the carnival but he could not.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#97. My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

Dana Hill

#98. It seems cruel," she said, "that after a while nothing matters ... any more than these little things that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labelled: 'Use unknown.'"
"Yes, but meanwhile -"
"Ah, meanwhile -

Edith Wharton

#99. So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

Amelia Earhart

#100. Don't forget the small things, above all, don't forget the small things - the smaller the trace, the more important it sometimes is.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky