Quotes about luxury
luxury leaving calling
I work for a big newspaper, and I guess I'm an insider. I don't have the luxury of calling myself a foreign correspondent and just swooping in and then leaving. Mark Leibovich
luxury-hotels evil sitting
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. Michael Haneke
luxury acting actors
Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us. George C. Scott
luxury people granted
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people. Christina Aguilera
luxury rose literature
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Gertrude Stein
luxury matter deny
He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things. Friedrich Nietzsche
luxury rivers lakes
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population. Norman Borlaug
luxury effort desire
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. Edward Bellamy
luxury america stuff
It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England. Terence Stamp
luxury mind rising
In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure. Terence McKenna
luxury leader honor
We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others. Simon Sinek
luxury giving chocolate
Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka! Rick Riordan
luxury comfort add
Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts. Thomas Jefferson
luxury play able
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons. Robert MacNeil
luxury political recluse
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Woodrow Wilson
luxury accomplish-nothing excess
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.
luxury isolation dies
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know Virginia Woolf
luxury belief mystery
Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
luxury poverty rich
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. William Hazlitt
luxury pleasure havana
A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know. W. Somerset Maugham
luxury hours wells
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. Vladimir Nabokov