Best Luxuries Quotations
122 Luxuries quotes by 106 unique authors
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
— Dalai Lama
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
— Robert Orben
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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 the elevation of mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
— Andrew Young
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure…
— C.S. Lewis
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
— D. H. Lawrence
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Budget the luxuries first.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think…
— Marisha Pessl
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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by…
— Mark Twain
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Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
— John Updike
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You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder…
— Ralph Nader
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and…
— Christopher Brookmyre
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A farmer once told me one of the greatest luxuries of his life was to wake up early only to go back to sleep again.
— James Herriot
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
— Robert Harris
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As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you…
— Jeannette Walls
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In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas?…
— Orhan Pamuk
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You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt…
— Stephen Fry
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Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
— Alan Moore
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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity, indoor plumbing, central…
— Edward Abbey
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I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
— C.S. Lewis
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Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at…
— Eoin Colfer
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No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries
— Edgar Allan Poe
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