Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they… — Mary Ruwart Copy Share Image
As a producer, I have the luxury of coming and going according to my convenience. As a director I cannot do that.… — Saira Banu Copy Share Image
Americans know our only response in the face of mounting risks from climate change must be the swift transition to a clean… — Brian Schatz Copy Share Image
I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family.… — Pink Copy Share Image
The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't… — Rose George Copy Share Image
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We insist that the international community cannot depend on any country with weapons of mass destruction which has relations with terrorists, and… — Jose Maria Aznar Copy Share Image
There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that's right. But… — Ralph Rucci Copy Share Image
Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Taxicabs might seem like a luxury item, and given the profound needs of so many disabled people in New York, why would… — Simi Linton Copy Share Image
Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just… — Norah Jones Copy Share Image
You know what the most amazing luxury problem in the world is? When you've got a bunch of hits you have to… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the… — Chris Bangle Copy Share Image
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I think it's possible to be just a fiction writer, and I don't think that it's a luxury. Oftentimes, what fiction does… — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
I'm equally happy bouncing across the African savannah in an old Land Rover as I am staying in a luxury resort in… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I have 60 people working for me in my studio. That's luxury if you ask me. I just dream. Tell those people… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
There is a common misconception that when you're a singer working for a recording company you get to pick everything you're doing.… — Frank Sinatra Jr Copy Share Image
It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through… — John Madden Copy Share Image
You have to be hopeful that people will be more educated in how they buy things, and hopefully more luxury brands will… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I might get in the door a little quicker than somebody else because of my last name. But if I'm not… — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Sometimes when we have so much going on, it's easy to forsake the things that seem like personal luxuries - for example,… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
“Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries… — Ron Sider Copy Share Image
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
A man who has blown all his options can’t afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever… — Hunter S. Thompson 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
