Luxury Quotes - Page 16

• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Survival, Resilience

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  I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything.

  Genghis Khan

  Beautiful, Horse, Hate

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• No logo, and you don't advertise for anyone. I don't believe in imposed luxury. I believe in built luxury. Something you refine with your own taste. Mass luxury is not my luxury.

  Lapo Elkann

  Believe, Taste, Logos

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• Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share.. our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I care for my soldiers as though they were my brothers.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Horse, Children

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• There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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• Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.

  Isadore Sharp

  Mean, Talking, Names

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• For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

  Michael Kors

  Caviar, Schedules, Meetings

  Interview with Sachin Bhola, www.askmen.com.

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• Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

  Coco Chanel

  Hair, Ends

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• The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Cultivation, Species

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• Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Appreciate, Way, Buying

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• I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don’t have that luxury.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Writing, Artist

  "Rachel Kushner: The Useless Truth". Interview with Jonathan Lee, www.guernicamag.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish, Party, Divorce

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• Long as I live large, life will be luxury,
  Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.

  Redman

  Rap, Love Is, Long

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• Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

  Rob Conway

  Reality, Phones, Vision

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• Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Thanksgiving, Teaching, Home

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

  Tahir Shah

  Alternatives, Contemplation

  Tahir Shah “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• The unity of Christendom is not a luxury, but a necessity. The world will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered. We must have unity, not at all costs, but at all risks. A unified Church is the only offering we dare present to the coming Christ, for in it alone will He find room to dwell.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Offering, Risk

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• I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind - qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Life, Believe, Men

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• Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

  Plato

  Passion, Political, Quality

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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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• Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Voice, Long, Shelter

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at the Meeting with a Group of Disadvantaged Young People of The Rehabilitation Community of The University Of Notre Dame in Sydney, w2.vatican.va. July 18, 2008.

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• The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

  Saul Alinsky

  Decision, Doe, Agents

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.25, Vintage

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• Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.

  Assata Shakur

  Sleep, Peaceful, Mind

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• But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Paris, Giving

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• All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

  Romain Rolland

  Responsibility, Men, Way

  Romain Rolland (1910). “Dawn. Morning. Youth. Revolt”

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