I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
In a series, you have the luxury of time to establish the character and build a rhythm. In a TV movie, you've… — Joe Penny Copy Share Image
I'm like the most expensive, exotic item on a gourmet menu. People can wonder about the sensuous delights of the dish, but… — Anna Kournikova Copy Share Image
It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and… — Lisa Rinna Copy Share Image
There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies.… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Does it not stir up our hearts, to go forth and help them, does it not make us long to leave our… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don't have the luxury of being apolitical. You can't say, 'That's… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer installations - is now a standard item both in… — Charles Platt Copy Share Image
I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
In a world where lifelong employment in the same job is a thing of the past, creativity is not a luxury. It… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Our vision is to create an exceptional lifestyle offering worthy of Tamarack's incredible surroundings. All of our partners involved in this development… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
“Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast; Custards for supper, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
We all have people who are literally one life shock away from going into a crisis. For many of us, we have… — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
“Rather than a tale of greed, the history of luxury could more accurately be read as a record of emotional trauma. It… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
TIME is the rarest luxury which can never be purchased nor sold at any cost so when someone spend it on you… — Nkemjika Copy Share Image
With the influx of available cryptocapital that has become widely accessible, it's going to be interesting to watch what happens next, because… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I always want to explore 'radical luxury' - I mean, I like radical more than I like luxury, and it's very nice… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image