Amenities Quotes

• Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

  Winston Churchill

  Opening, Speakers

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• I always say if the house I live in is comfortable, and I have all the amenities I need, then what more can you ask for?

  Ray Allen

  House, Needs, Asks

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• To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Kings, Lasts, Poverty

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

  John Naisbitt

  People, Tools, Growing

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant, and other fantastic amenities. Obviously location is a key factor as well.

  Ivanka Trump

  Unique, Keys, Should Have

  Source: www.luxurytravelmagazine.com

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• I'm like toilet paper, toothpaste and certain amenities - I'm proven to be good. I've still got 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years left.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Years, Paper, Toilets

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• In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

  Thomas Frank

  Hipster, Teenager, Eye

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.113, MIT Press

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• To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And he is distressed to find that the more means he can dispose of-such as machine-power, rapid transport, and general civilized amenities, the more his problems grow in hardness and complexity....Perhaps the first thing he can learn form the artists is that the only way of 'mastering' one's material is to abandon the whole conception of mastery and to co-operate with it in love: whosoever will be a lord of life, let him be its servant.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Love, Mean, Men

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• The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Happiness, Fate, Grace

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.71, University of Chicago Press

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• That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Women, Conversation

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1962). “Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals: A Sparkling Panorama of "La Belle Epoque", Its Gilded Society, Irrepressible Wits and Splendid Courtesans”

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• For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.

  May Sarton

  Angel, Break Through, Singing

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.47, Open Road Media

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• A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rivers, Water, Paddling

  "New Jersey v. New York, et al., 283 U.S. 336, 342". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.

  Jack White

  People, Downtown

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• Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

  Akio Morita

  Japan, Management, Concern

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 181), 1986.

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• How many roads must a developer walk down, before they accept the amenities package?

  Bob Dylan

  Accepting, Walks, Packages

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• No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

  G. H. Hardy

  Science, Discovery, Differences

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden.

  Ouida

  Garden, Bears, Would Be

  Ouida (1889). “Works: Pascarel”

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• Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business.

  Gerard Arpey

  Jobs, Mean, Great Job

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• Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

  Charles A. Reich

  Country, Technology, Men

  "The Greening of America". Book by Charles A. Reich, 1970.

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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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• A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

  Tony Hsieh

  Ships, Cruise, Bigger

  "Zappos Milestone: Q&A With Tony Hsieh". Footwear News Interview, footwearnews.com. May 4, 2009.

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• We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Mean, People

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• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Law, Tolerance

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• There's precious little to say between day and dark,
  Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
  Of time sailing like a magic barque
  Or something as fine for the amenities.

  Allen Tate

  Twilight, Dark, Sailing

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.43, Macmillan

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