Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

Bill Watterson

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Abu Bakr

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

Ann Landers

Don't indulge in gossip. ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves.

Janet Reno

Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

Cameron Diaz

One of the great things about being an actor is that you do get to indulge in someone else's life.

C. S. Lewis

The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Ai Weiwei

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Alan Watts

Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

Chogyam Trungpa

The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.

Chogyam Trungpa

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

David Brin

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

Deepak Chopra

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

Ann Druyan

No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.

Eckhart Tolle

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

Eckhart Tolle

Being an outsider to some extent, someone who does not "fit in" with others or is rejected by them for whatever reason, makes life difficult, but it also places you at an advantage as far as enlightenment is concerned. It takes you out of unconsciousness almost by force.