It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts. — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
“You will be remembered for making a difference, and not for being the owner of fleets of cars.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury,… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The main thing we thought was lacking in the luxury market were basic pieces that could break up an outfit so you… — Ashley Olsen Copy Share Image
Neither should the theater in our country be regarded as a luxury. It is a necessity because in order to make democracy… — Hallie Flanagan Copy Share Image
One of the greatest freedoms of living in America is being able to ask the question: "If I could do anything I… — Mark Burnett Copy Share Image
And you, America, that passion made you. You were not born to prosperity, you were born to love freedom. You did not… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me? It… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
In the older view the goddess Universe was alive, herself organically the Earth, the horizon, and the heavens. Now she is dead,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all… — Peter York Copy Share Image
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity.… — Susan Jane Gilman Copy Share Image
I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean. — Gemma Ward Copy Share Image
The best luxury in the world isn't a diamond ring or a nice house - well, it could be - but it's… — Margaret Trudeau Copy Share Image
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
When you're a mother hen, you sometimes coddle your children. But there are different ways of coddling. Some coddle with luxury, others… — Charlotte Knobloch Copy Share Image
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I love luxury, I love the high life, and I have to foot the bills - I have received practically nothing from… — Britt Ekland Copy Share Image
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
