Luxury Quotes - page 20

I want to live my next life backwards: You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in a nursing home feeling better every day. Then you get kicked out for being too healthy. Enjoy your retirement and collect your pension. Then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work 40 years until you're too young to work. You get ready for High School: drink alcohol, party, and you're generally promiscuous. Then you go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, and you have no responsibilities. Then you become a baby, and then... You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions – central heating, room service on tap, and then... You finish off as an orgasm. (George Carlin)
Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged. . . thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury. View quote
Cicero
The notion that advertising was a sort of corporate luxury, to be indulged in where there are no demands left over, now seems archaic and quaint. Businessmen are increasingly inclined to view the appropriation as a true capital investment – as much so as a new plant. View quote
Neil Fligstein
Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. View quote
Ernest Mandel
That is to me a far more significant portent than the aggregation of the population in cities, the immense luxury, and the exhaustion of the permanent sources of wealth, all of which combined to sap that very character whose continued existence was necessary for the life of the State. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
I have always had a penchant for luxury, opulence, and prestige. View quote
Elliot Rodger
My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it. View quote
Matthew Perry (actor)
Spirituality is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the choice of the wise man. View quote
Chinmayananda Saraswati
A luxury of deep repose ! the heart Must surely beat in quiet here. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon)
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. View quote
John Bright
Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
It is not in the calm and measured paths of to day that we see the more bold and pronounced characters, whose outlines have been rough-hewn by the strong hand of necessity; yet to such troubled times often belong the development of our noblest and best qualities - the stormy gulf of Ormus throws up the finest pearls. It is not in the season of tranquility that we know aught of the generous devotion, the fertility of resource, and the forgetfulness of self often shown in the hour of trial. When the French revolution broke out, how many, only accustomed to indolence, luxury, and custom, showed that "there was iron in the rose;" and, whether at the call of duty or of affection, were prepared to bear even to the uttermost, and to exert a fortitude till then undreamed of. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about. View quote
Willem Dafoe
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated. View quote
Nick Cave
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. View quote
Daphne du Maurier
I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety. View quote
James McAvoy
I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are. (Ludacris)
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance. View quote
Lady Gaga
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard. View quote
M. Ward
Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed. View quote
Kate Winslet
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury. View quote
Mae West