Extravagant Quotes - Page 2

• If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it,
  like jewels, small islands.

  Gina Gershon

  Islands, Receiving Love, Jewels

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• Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Honesty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Life, Loyalty, Real

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• This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Men, Color

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs because our understanding of intimacy is so poor. Brutal work schedules, related geographic isolation, and the concomitant fracturing of families has meant that there is little time for intimacy, and even less to teach the necessary skills. But intimacy, the axis of romance, is slow, based on the sharing of a life rather than show. In terms of intimacy, folding laundry together or sharing the feeding of a child can have more impact than the most extravagant bouquet.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Sex, Children, Impact

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• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

  Sallust

  Extravagance, Greedy, Property

  'Catiline' ch. 5

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• You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Journey, Needs, Helping

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• In my own experience I have found that the most extravagant dreams of boyhood have not surpassed the great experience of being in the Will of God, and I believe that nothing could be better. That is not to say that I do not want other things, and other ways of living, and other places to see, but in my right mind I know that my hopes and plans for myself could not be any better than He has arranged and fulfilled them. Thus may we all find it, and know the truth of the Word which says, He will be our guide even until death.

  Jim Elliot

  Dream, Believe, Mind

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• I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

  Leona Lewis

  Thinking, Different, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Men, Pits

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• God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2014

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• If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.

  Louie Giglio

  Tiny, Worship, Empty

  Twitter post from Apr 19, 2012

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• Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

  Bob Goff

  Trying, Efficient

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• I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

  Andrew Motion

  Beautiful, Extraordinary Person, Imagination

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• In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Grace, Stories

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• Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

  Theophrastus

  Time, Waste, Expenses

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• It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter the dining room as things of beauty in colour and texture. Food should be served with real care as to the colour and texture on the plates, as well as with imaginative taste. This is where artistic talent and aesthetic expression and fulfillment come in.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Real, Expression, Order

  Edith Schaeffer (1972). “Hidden art”

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• Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.

  Kevin Kline

  Done, Comedy, Has Beens

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• In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

  Paul Young

  Eighty

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I am not a romantic. I am a domestic animal. I do not sigh and yearn for extravagant displays of passion, for the grand affair, the world well lost for love. I know all that, and know that it leaves you lonely. No, what I crave is the simplicity of routine. An evening walk, arm in arm, in fine weather. A game of cards. Time for idle talk. Preparing a meal together.

  Anita Brookner

  Lonely, Passion, Animal

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• I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Wanted

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• I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I don't know why I expected such extravagant results from the application of mere justice. That kind of calculation is seldom borne out by worldly events.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Self, Justice, Causes

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, June 1, 2009.

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• In Britain, an attractive woman is somehow suspect. If there is talent as well, it is overshadowed. Beauty and brains just can't be entertained; someone has been too extravagant. This does not happen in America or on the Continent, for the looks of a woman are considered a positive advertisement for her gifts and don't detract from them.

  Vivien Leigh

  America, Brain, Doe

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• For, when the credit of a country is in any degree questionable, it never fails to give on extravagant premium, in one shape or another, upon all the loans it has occasion to make. Nor does the evil end here; the same disadvantage must be sustained upon whatever is to be bought on terms of future payment. From this constant necessity of borrowing and buying dear, it is easy to conceive how immensely the expenses of a nation, in a course of time, will be augmented by an unsound state of the public credit.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Evil, Giving

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1828). “Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of the 10th May, 1800: ... to which are Prefixed, the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, on a National Bank, on Manufactures, and on the Establishment of a Mint ... Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States”, p.3

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• Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give, the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of "how little," but always in terms of "how much." Love gives, love knows, and love lasts.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Love, Thinking, Giving

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