Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thornton Wilder

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

Robert Musil

Mathematics is the bold luxury of pure reason, one of the few that remain today.

Saul Alinsky

The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

Roger Moore

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Robert Shaw

In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.

Robert Plant

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

Samuel Johnson

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

Rob Machado

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

Vera Wang

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

Trent Reznor

Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Robert Jensen

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Warren Buffett

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Wang Jianlin

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

William Cowper

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I didn't want people to say: Stelios does everything on the cheap at work, and in private he lives in the lap of luxury. That's not me. I don't need those status symbols. I don't need a private jet either when I can go everywhere with Easy.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

Vilfredo Pareto

Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.

Vince Cable

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

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.'

James A. Baldwin

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

Jeb Bush

America does not have the luxury of withdrawing from the world, our security, and our prosperity, and our values demand that we remain engaged and involved in -- often distant places.

Evan Davis

Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene, the practicalities are in trouble, as women who wear expensive stiletto heels can testify.

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...

Jil Sander

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.