Luxury Quotes - Page 29

• It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

  Vera Caspary

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

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• Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Prayer, Sleep, Remember

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• EXTREME LUXURY ISN'T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT'S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Bling, Finest, Couture

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• I wish I had the luxury of time to read and write like grad students do. That sounds pretty awesome. When I was writing my first book one of my friends was going to grad school at the same time and I heard a lot of stories about drinking, too. I feel like everyone was having affairs.

  Jami Attenberg

  Drinking, Book, Writing

  "Go Forth (Vol. 10)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. June 5, 2013.

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• John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 13 years before they died on the same day. They asked, "How can one have prosperity without commerce? How can one have commerce without luxury? How can one have luxury without corruption? How can you have corruption without the end of the Republic?" And they really didn't know the answer.

  Pete Seeger

  Years, Answers, Republic

  Source: portside.org

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• Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.

  Sherman Alexie

  Shoes, Worry, Poverty

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• Indians have no monopoly on environmentalism. That's one of the great myths. But we were subsistence livers. They're two different things. Environmentalism is a conscious choice and subsistence is the absence of choice. We had to use everything to survive. And now that we've been assimilated and colonized and we have luxuries and excesses, we're just as wasteful as other people.

  Sherman Alexie

  Two, People, Choices

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach either as individuals - it's mass propulsion still!

  Alice B. Toklas

  Art, Sex, Generations

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• What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one!

  Ann Radcliffe

  Disappointment, Integrity, Soul

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1145, Delphi Classics

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• A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.

  John Jortin

  Men, Violence, Use

  John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75

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• The remaining revenue on the consumption of foreign luxuries to domestic comforts, being collected on our seaboard and frontiers only, and incorporated with the transactions of our mercantile citizens, it may be the pleasure and the pride of an American to ask, What farmer, what merchant, what laborer ever sees a tax gatherer of the United States?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pride, Comfort, United States

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• Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

  Joan Frank

  Writing, Treasure, Letters

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• The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

  Flora Thompson

  Becoming

  Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.431, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

  Jennifer Stone

  Writing, Being In Love, Poetry

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• in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.

  Fred Vargas

  Thinking, Embarrassment, Circumstances

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• Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

  Eula Biss

  Country, World, Entertaining

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• As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Giving Up, Long, Want

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.157, Penguin

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• If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Giving Up, Want, Exploitation

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.157, Penguin

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• Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I'm very, very grateful; it's a fun job. It's a luxury.

  Angelina Jolie

  Jobs, Growing Up, Fun

  "Angelina Jolie On Marriage, Brad, Her Kids & Pregnancy", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

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• I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Beautiful, Mean, House

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• I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Thinking, Knowing, Skills

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• I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

  Mo Rocca

  Coffee, Feelings, Sentimental

  "What Comedian Mo Rocca Eats For Breakfast" by Julia Bainbridge, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

  Robert Herjavec

  Country, Car, Communist

  "Celebrity Collector - Robert Herjavec". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 14, 2012.

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• The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Perception, Comfort

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Society and solitude”

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• To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.

  Leon Eisenberg

  Mistake, Believe, Men

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