Luxury Quotes - Page 14

• The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

  Harry Crews

  Jobs, Blood, Clothes

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• Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you sure you’re at the library? I thought I heard water.” Artemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. “Water? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.” “Are you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you’re wearing that smug smile of yours.

  Eoin Colfer

  Beach, Water, Hollies

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Clothes, Boredom

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• No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Missing, Matter, You Choose

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Push yourself. Don’t settle. Wear those stripy legs with pride. And if you insist on settling down with some ridiculous bloke, make sure some of this is squirreled away somewhere. Knowing you still have possibilities is a luxury. Knowing I might have given them to you has alleviated something for me.

  Jojo Moyes

  Pride, Knowing, Legs

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• Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Sole

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.134, Hackett Publishing

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• He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Spring, Law, Evil

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• Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

  Randy Alcorn

  Helping Others, Heaven, Earth

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Managing God's Money: A Biblical Guide”, p.133, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fate, Choices, Doe

  Jasper Fforde (2012). “The Last Dragonslayer”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

  Coco Chanel

  Lying, Absence, Richness

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• There’s a lot of things wrong with this country, but one of the few things still right with it is that a man can steer clear of the organized bullshit if he really wants to. It’s a goddamned luxury, and if I were you, I’d take advantage of it while you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Men, Bullshit

  Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley (2000). “Fear And Loathing In America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Stupid, Rich Countries

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• The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

  Colum McCann

  Giving Up, Vanity, Age

  Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.119, A&C Black

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• Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.

  Richard Siken

  Grateful, Writing, Thinking

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• When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dance, Enjoy, Witch Of Portobello

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• The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Real, Pleasure Seeking

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• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Parent, Politics

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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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• The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the accumulation of wealth and the enjoyment of luxury... Furthermore, it was the rule of his life to share the fruits of his skill and success with his less fortunate brothers. Thus he kept his spirit free from the clog of pride, cupidity, or envy, and carried out, as he believed, the divine decree-a matter profoundly important to him.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Success, Brother, Native American

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