Alberto Giacometti Quotes

In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.

Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

The whole problem with people is they don't know what matters and what doesn't.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

We are disappointed at the decision. The president remains fully committed to building a culture of life ... that is built on valuing life at all stages.

The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.

If your house burns down, rescue the dogs. At least they'll be faithful to you.

We value some lives more than others.

Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.

I think I did everything possible known to any mayor in the country as it relates to saving lives.

I met Elvis in your woods one night,” Terry said. One of the EMTs had given him a shot, and I thought it was beginning to work. “I knew I was nuts then. He was telling me how much he liked cats. I told him I was a dog person, myself.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

Not everyone is worth listening to.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.

First with the head, then with the heart.

It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Let's say there was a burning building and you could rush in and you could save only one thing: either the last known copy of Shakespeare's plays or some anonymous human being. What would you do?

The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters.