Luxury Quotes - Page 17

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

Athletics is a luxury.

The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?

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.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.