Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

Chaz Bono

I don't have the luxury of doing things privately.

Calvin Trillin

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Billy Sherwood

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

Ludwig von Mises

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

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.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Jimmy Carter

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

John F. Kerry

I've often said that global climate change is an issue where no one has the luxury of being "half-pregnant." You either are or you aren't. And so it is with climate change. You either understand and accept the science - or you don't. Folks this isn't a cafeteria where you can pick and choose and accept the science that tells us what is happening, but then reject the science that warns us what will happen.

John Calvin

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Johan Huizinga

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

George Crabbe

He tried the luxury of doing good.

Edward Bellamy

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Hermann Hesse

It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.

Kenneth Clark

The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many others. It is now doubtful whether America can afford the luxury of such a waste of human resources.

Livy

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

Lukas Haas

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Oscar de la Renta

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

O. Henry

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

Henri Rousseau

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

Edsger Dijkstra

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

They are planning to offer a wide variety of boats, from personal watercraft up to a 38-foot luxury cruiser.

Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Jill Scott

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

Eugene H. Peterson

Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way...

Ernest Mandel

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

Helen Keller

Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of the sunbeams.

Isaac Disraeli

An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.