Luxury Quotes - Page 7

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Luxury is obviously the direction that interests me the most, but there is a lot of confusion between luxury and exhibitionism. For me, the concept of luxury is more traditional, more exclusive, more sophisticated than luxury for the masses.

Nothing is too beautiful, nothing is too expensive.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

... the photographer is a thief who chooses what he steals (which, at this stage of the crisis, is a luxury) and does not democratize the image, that is to say, the photographer selects the pictures, a privilege which ought to be granted to the person being photographed.

The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

A room to myself is a luxury that I do not always enjoy.

Friendship is one of the greatest luxuries of life.

To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

As the leader of a country, you are not free to enjoy the luxury of such feelings. The Afghan people want peace, which requires persistence. We are determined to defend our country, and the whole region and the entire world understands the justice of our cause and the principled way in which we have engaged in it.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

The only product that's worth investing in is a fully functional musculoskeletal system. It's no luxury but rather a basic necessity that's within everyone's reach.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

The greatest luxury is being free.

I’ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It’s like my last luxury.