Luxury Quotes - Page 11

• People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.

  Andrew Tobias

  Inspiration, People, Giving

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• What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

  Justin Broadrick

  Technology, Thinking, Done

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Sports, Men, Intellectual

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested in our jobs and it keeps us coming back to work, every day. A new setting is amazing 'cause it's new for the team and it's new for our characters.

  Aldis Hodge

  Jobs, Team, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Ease, Might

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• I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

  Jill Scott

  Waiting, Musician, Actors

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• Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

  Diane Ackerman

  Block, People, Deadline

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• There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

  Robert Plant

  Goes On, Wealth, Fame

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• The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn't own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I'm very short-tempered and would get road rage, I'm sure.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Car, Mind

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy.

  Deborah Needleman

  Style, Make You Happy

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• Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

  Virginia Woolf

  Isolation, Knows, Dies

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Audre Lorde

  Existence, Poetry Is

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.37, Crossing Press

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• Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Assets, Built

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jul 27, 2012

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• Even in challenging economic times, making sure that study abroad is part of our college students' education is a vital investment. If we want a new generation of leaders and innovators who can be effective in an ever more globalized world, sending our students overseas is not a luxury. It's a necessity.

  Rick Steves

  College, Leader, Challenges

  "The World Is A Classroom" by Rick Steves, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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• There's just something about women and shoes, it's the luxury, it's the femininity and it's the attention to detail. You can put a lot of work into your dress but if you have the right shoe and bag then you feel good.

  Nicole Kidman

  Shoes, Feel Good, Dresses

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• I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

  Paul McCartney

  Able, Mediums, Ultimate

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• Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Passion, Gay

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Evangeline: Part The Second. Iv.”

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• Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Needs, Hierarchy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Politics, Dinner

  Essays, Second Series "New England Reformers" (1844)

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• The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Money, Letting You Go

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book For Free Spirits 2: Human Book”, p.43, 谷月社

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• Men are a luxury, not a necessity.

  Cher

  Love, Break Up, Breakup

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• High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.

  Jack Canfield

  Self Esteem, Goal, Important

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Apr 05, 2011

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• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Happiness, Would Be, Carefree

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• Until relatively recently, mass political movements were still about basic rights of food, shelter, education and self sufficiency. The reasons fewer people vote these days, or turn up for political meetings, is that for the vast majority of us those rights have been fulfilled. These days it's in the adverts for mobile phones or foreign holidays where phrases like "Join the Revolution!" and "Cry Freedom!" are bandied about for a generation which knows nothing of their provenance. Just as now we have luxury illnesses to replace real ones, so now we have luxury politics.

  John Diamond

  Real, Holiday, Rights

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