Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

We don't have the luxury of waiting one more shipping season to regulate these (overseas) vessels.

We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Barry Alvarez

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

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.

Troy Vincent

That disparity is going to get larger. You look at all the skyboxes and the luxury seating and the amenities at newer stadiums in big markets, and you can see where the disparity comes from.

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.

People just feel that travel is not something that's a luxury anymore. It's a necessity, and particularly at this time of year, people want to get home,

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

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Aldous Huxley

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Aldous Huxley

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Aldous Huxley

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Albert Einstein

The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

Anish Kapoor

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense 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.

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.

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.

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.

Alistair Cooke

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Adam Smith

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

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