Extravagance Quotes - Page 3

• He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

  Alec-Tweedie

  Doe, Want, Ends

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• I've always led a pretty simple life, with few extravagances. The money in tennis never drove me.

  Pete Sampras

  Simple, Tennis, Simple Life

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• Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Hate, Excess

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  Rachel Nichols

  Car, Expenses, Justify

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• Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

  Imelda Marcos

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beauty And Love, World, Commit

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• It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Art, Real

  "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.

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• I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sorry, Suffering, Pay

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”

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• Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

  Benjamin Rush

  House, Bipolar, Furniture

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• Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

  Michael Cunningham

  Giving, Youth, Assumption

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• You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain food," Four says, nodding at Christina. "Why?" she asks. I shrug. "Extravagance is considered self-indulgent and unnecessary." She smirks. "No wonder you left." "Yeah," I say,rolling my eyes. "It was just because of the food." The corner of Four's mouth twitches.

  Veronica Roth

  Eye, Self, Rolling

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• We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

  Jonis Agee

  Running, Rivers, Water

  Jonis Agee (1991). “Sweet eyes”, Crown Pub

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• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Opinion

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• An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mean, Writing, Reality

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• We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Life, Believe, Simple

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• The extravagance of any corporate office is directly proportional to management's reluctance to reward the shareholders.

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Rewards, Management

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• I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers.

  Anais Nin

  Book, Giving, Letters

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• Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection, thoroughly qualified him to touch the weak, superstitious part of his readers' imagination, and made him capable of succeeding where he had nothing to support him besides the strength of his own genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Imagination, Perfection, Support

  Joseph Addison (1975). “Essays in Criticism and Literary Theory”, Harlan Davidson

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• … that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out of their rooms to seek each other out, to rub shoulders with one another, bully, joke, condescend, feel each other, lay a hand on a shoulder or an arm round a waist, to chat and argue with little nudges, to spy a little, sniff out what is cooking in other pots, flatter, disagree, collude, be right, take offence, apologise, make amends, avoid each other, and seek each other’s company again.

  Amos Oz

  Loneliness, Self, Hands

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• I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn't have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn't have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn't enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.

  Lynn Austin

  Love, Spring, Flower

  Lynn Austin (2001). “Hidden Places: A Novel”, p.210, Bethany House

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Harbour, Certain, Civilised Society

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Lovers, Wedding Invitation

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

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