There Are More Important Things Quotes

#1. 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

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

Robert Gardner

#3. 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

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

Arden Cho

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

Reki Kawahara

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

Hermoine Granger

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Alison G. Bailey

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

J.K. Rowling

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Karina Halle

#21. 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

#22. There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.

Aaron Spelling

#23. Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and ... and important. But me ... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

Tink

#24. There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are - and have always been.

Benjamin Jowett

#25. I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.

Zac Posen

#26. Thanks to my father who, as it was to turn out, had already taught me most of what I needed to know about business in his butcher's shop in Belfast. Thanks to my mother, who taught me that there are many things in life much more important than business.

Russell Napier

#27. 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

#28. There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

Barack Obama

#29. I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.

Phil Collins

#30. I suspect that children want their parents to be busy; they don't want to have to fill your schedule with their paltry needs. Children want to be assured that there are other things to do, important things; more important, on occasion, than they are.

Lionel Shriver

#31. Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

Ralph Merkle

#32. There are things that are more important than life.

Ingrid Betancourt

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

Martha Stewart

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

Wallace Stevens

#35. There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

Joseph Boyden

#36. 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

#37. Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh ... like uh ... like ... uh ... well, I'll think of it later.

George Burns

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

A.S. Byatt

#39. Changing entrenched systems is daunting; the odds against reshaping the nation's police forces are high. But there are few things more important than making sure their profession is the brave, honorable service it should be. We have to do it, or watch our communities and our democracy disintegrate.

Ann Medlock

#40. I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#41. There are a lot of things in life way more important than money. All that said, some people do get confused. I play golf with a man who says, " What good is health? You can't buy money with it."

Charlie Munger

#42. We pretend a lot of things aren't there. Or we pretend that other things are more important. That's how we survive.

John Le Carre

#43. There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Dennis Lehane

#45. If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.

Dan Jenkins

#46. 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

#47. Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that become more important in your daily life.

Alex Trebek

#48. In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.

Bryce Courtenay

#49. I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.

Veruschka Von Lehndorff

#50. 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

#51. Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.

Ayn Rand

#52. It is, but a virtue taken to extremes is a vice. If one does not understand there are things more important than the truth one doesn't understand how important the truth is.

Javier Cercas

#53. 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

#54. There are things we can all do to help, including carpooling and traveling only when necessary, in order to save gas during this time. However, there is also something more important which we can all do: buy only the gas which you need.

Jo Bonner

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. There are some things more important than your own life. Like friendship, and love, and trust, and goodness.

David Estes

#59. I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.

David Gerrold

#60. As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than relationships.

David Nicholls

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

Iris Apfel

#62. There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.

Chad Kultgen