Luxury Quotes - Page 19

• A luxury liner is really just a bad play surrounded by water.

  Clive James

  Play, Water, Transport

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.162, Pan Macmillan

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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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  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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• 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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• 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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• ...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Math, Squares

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1386, Library of America

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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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• The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.

  Henry Fairlie

  Play, Shopping, Survival

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• I used to believe that love and happiness were synonymous. I was a fool. Love intensifies all emotions. Nothing is so painful o so sweet, so thrilling or so desperate... Pleasure is, after all, a luxury. It's love thats essential. You are never so alive as when you love, never so alert, intuitive, attentive, never so smart or so compassionate.

  John Dufresne

  Sweet, Smart, Believe

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• We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Good Life, Stress, Sick

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Try as much as you can to mention death.  For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you.  And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.

  Umar

  Hard Times, Giving, Trying

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• Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

  Randy Alcorn

  Life Changing, May, Helping

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• Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Enough, Bottom, Concepts

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• I'm still about as pigeon-toed as you can get. But I learned to manage pretty well on a bike. Should have had a bicycle then, when I was a kid, but our family didn't have the money for such luxuries. I saved up to buy one myself a few years later.

  Norman Rockwell

  Kids, Should Have, Years

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• Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

  Peter Diamandis

  Creating, Abundance, Possibility

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• To be without health insurance in this country means to be without access to medical care. But health is not a luxury, nor should it be the sole possession of a privileged few. We are all created b'tzelem elohim - in the image of God - and this makes each human life as precious as the next. By 'pricing out' a portion of this country's population from health care coverage, we mock the image of God and destroy the vessels of God's work.

  Alexander Schindler

  Country, Mean, Population

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• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Greed, Poverty

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• Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

  Aristotle

  Greatness, Thinking, Honor

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2945, Delphi Classics

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• Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds.

  Gideon Gono

  Car, Abuse, Want

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• I am a teller of stories. A weaver of dreams. I can dance, sing, and in the right weather I can stand on my head. I know 7 words of Latin, I have a little magic... and a trick or two. I know the proper way to meet a dragon, I can fight dirty but not fair. I once swallowed thirty oysters in a minute. I am not domestic, I am a luxury and, in that sense, necessary.

  Anthony Minghella

  Dream, Latin, Dirty

  "Fictional character: The Storyteller". TV Series "The Storyteller" ("A Story Short", 1988), www.imdb.com. (1987 - ).

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• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

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• The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is great; but the advantages of this law are also greater still than its cost- for it is to this law that we owe our wonderful material development, which brings improved conditions in its train.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work, Law, Competition

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay The Gospel of Wealth”, p.278, Courier Corporation

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• Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Profound

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• We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

  Phoebe Philo

  People, Respectful, Be Good

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• H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Philosophy, Exercise

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