There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover’s croon, Come...

Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word “luxury.

Era ella quien se abría como una sandía madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordía, lo arañaba, lo chupaba, gemía, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer....

Money’s easy to make if it’s money you want. But with few exceptions people don’t want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

I don’t have the luxury to work on anything. I’m just going to go compete and … try to get hitters out like I have from day one. Certain guys have the luxury of easing...

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources in spite of living in abject penury situations.

Weekends are a real luxury for me because I’m usually working.

Love is a luxury. It’s something that people are allowed to indulge in when they’re not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain,...

In our league, the referee doesn’t have the luxury of replay. He was right there, but he wasn’t sure and he couldn’t make the call. I looked at the replay and it was pretty evident...

We’re being consistent with what every other sport does. We’ve had the luxury of having more space, but that has changed. There’s too much congestion on the sidelines.

These people don’t have the luxury of going down to the post office and getting their ballot postmarked. And lots of times when they’re trying to get these things in expeditiously, which is what the...

This is probably a more seasoned team. It’s a luxury to have all the firepower we do.

[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling...

This water I can drink right now is a luxury for 1.2 billion people in the world. Three-hundred million people south of Sahara don’t have this,

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

It’s scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?””It’s meant to be lavender.””No, Dex – it’s money. It smells of money.

I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

You settle for less, you get less.

It’s a luxury to have that type of player.

Steve Finley, having him as a fourth outfielder is a luxury that a lot of teams don’t have. Obviously he’s not a fourth outfielder but that’s what you have to pencil him in as.

If a good system of agriculture, unrivaled manufacturing skill, a capacity to produce whatever can contribute to either convenience or luxury, schools established in every village for teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic, the general practice...

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

It’s a terrible thing to say I know. I’ve only done what I wanted to do. It’s a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I’ve...

In the past we have been primarily a running team, but this year we’ve had the luxury of being able to do some more things.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a...

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for...

Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.

And what I thought most about was luxury. I had never realised before that it is more than just having things; it makes the very air feel different. And I felt different, breathing the air:...

The idea of luxury, even the word “luxury,” was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact...

Someone should do a study of the human brain and how quickly it can adjust to luxury.

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note,” he said, “but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life–we went soft, we lost our edge.

…luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is its purpose…

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Our sisters and brothers were picked up in public by local commanders for the purpose of sex and luxury and we could do nothing.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Be selective in your battles…

It’s unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!

I get that luxury. I’ll try to play her straight up and make her take difficult shots. Obviously they are very athletic and quick. They have the total all-around package. We’re going to have to...

I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, ‘I’ve made it.’

We don’t have the luxury of waiting one more shipping season to regulate these (overseas) vessels.

humanity” a small price for the power they now wielded; power that would sustain them far beyond the lives of mere humans and perhaps, in time, even grant them immortality.

Shyness is a luxury reserved for those who are above the poverty line. To a beggar, being shy is deadly.