Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Donella Meadows

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Angela Ahrendts

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

Andrew Young

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Andre Agassi

Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development are committed to delivering the highest level of quality and luxury possible. We are excited to have Fairmont join us in this endeavor.

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Andrew Carnegie

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Anna Kournikova

I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but they can't afford such an expensive luxury

Alexander Pope

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Drake Bell

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Dalai Lama

Taking care of our planet is like taking care of our houses. Since we human beings come from Nature, there is no point in our going against nature, which is why I say the environment is not a matter of religion or ethics or morality. These are luxuries, since we can survive without them. But we will not survive if we continue to go against nature.

Dodie Smith

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dario Argento

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

David Platt

It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

Anthony Mackie

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

Amy Tan

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer.

Barry Alvarez

J.P. didn't have the luxury of rolling them today,

Nouriel Roubini

I think it's a very negative signal we're sending to the world. We don't have the luxury to snub the world.

For us to make a deal, there has to be a luxury tax in it.

Kurt Vonnegut

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

Vandana Shiva

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Vandana Shiva

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Bharati Mukherjee

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

Cecelia Ahern

what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted

Bernard Arnault

Affordable luxury - these are two words that don't go together.

Bernard Arnault

Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest luxury brand in terms of sales, is planning to dampen its expansion worldwide and focus on high-end products to preserve its exclusive image.

Bernard Arnault

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

Bernard Arnault

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

Ashton Kutcher

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.