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

  Bob Goff

  Trying, Efficient

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

  Kevin Kline

  Done, Comedy, Has Beens

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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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• The great Way is easy, yet people prefer the side paths. Be aware when things are out of balance. Stay centered within the Tao. When rich speculators prosper While farmers lose their land; when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures; when the upper class is extravagant and irresponsible while the poor have nowhere to turn- all this is robbery and chaos. It is not in keeping with the Tao.

  Laozi

  Government, Land, Class

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.

  Craig Kilborn

  Lifestyle, Apartment, Studios

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• True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Thinking, Intelligent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• We should not expect the state to appear in the guise of an extravagant good fairy at every christening, a loquacious companion at every stage of life's journey, and the unknown mourner at every funeral.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Journey, Government, Funeral

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

  Brad Renfro

  Golf, Men, Play

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