When you're young, luxury often means being able to buy something you really want - a high end bag or a specific… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I think the greatest of people in society carved niches that represented the unique expression of their combinations of talents, and if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods,… — Alice James Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, so I don't allow myself the dangerous luxury of toying with the idea of doing things differently. — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they… — Diego Della Valle Copy Share Image
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I've had the luxury of travel and, in the luxury of travel, I've seen the detriments of poverty and I've gone on… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Black women usually don't get the luxury of faking their way through life and still succeeding, but when a white guy does… — Sarah Cooper Copy Share Image
