Luxuries Quotes
122 quotes by 108 authors
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack…
— Margaret Atwood
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
— Sholom Aleichem
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I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.
— Albert Camus
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Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
— Cher
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and…
— Jimmy Carter
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We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we…
— Jimmy Carter
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of their originals ...…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
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The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
— Seneca the Younger
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
— Oscar Wilde
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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving…
— Humphry Davy
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.
— Mark Halperin
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The biggest difference for me is momentum. On a smaller film you get to shoot sometimes four or five scenes a day and you've got…
— Joel Edgerton
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It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having.
— Frankie Rayder
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Love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. Marriage is not the…
— Esther Perel
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School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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