"It's not what we say is a priority, but what we actually DO that's a priority."

-- J.D. Roth

#Priorities Quotes

“We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.”
“My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.”
“Theft annoys me more than anything else. The purloining of effects from another magician. Some people think it's massive to steal the secrets of nuclear reactors, but to steal a card move is trivial. They're wrong.”
“Any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Tragic, first because it decreases our likelihood of getting our need met! Even if we think it. And secondly, because it increases the likelihood of violence. That's why I'm suggesting any evaluation which implies rightness or wrongness is a tragic, suicidal expression of an unmet need. Say the need! Learn a need-consciousness.”
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.”
“The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.”

Source : Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.164, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.”
“Quite definitely a Bingley”

Source : Lauren Willig (2011). “The Mischief of the Mistletoe”, p.50, Allison & Busby

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