Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty. ~ Michael A. van Doorn, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

All spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God’s Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish.

The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his consumption also undergoes a specialisation as regards the quality of...

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Usiifundishe familia yako anasa. Ifundishe upendo, unyenyekevu na hofu ya Mungu. Ukiifundisha anasa utahatarisha maisha ya mbinguni ya familia yako, na ya kwako pia.

When you’re not used to comfort and good things to eat, you’re intoxicated by them in no time. Truth’s only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go...

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Understand: I don’t ever want to be equal to any other being. I always want to be greater…in all things, in all circumstances.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury

are a luxury we can no longer afford.

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

The ceremonial differentiation of the dietary is best seen in the use of intoxicating beverages and narcotics. If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific. Therefore the base...

People just feel that travel is not something that’s a luxury anymore. It’s a necessity, and particularly at this time of year, people want to get home,

Spirits are perceived as affordable luxury. People are more careful with their spending today. Maybe they can’t buy a $40,000 BMW but they’re willing to buy a good $60 to $70 bottle of Scotch. You...

That’s not a luxury that we have right now in this particular draft.

It took a certain kind of person to come from luxury and seek out danger.

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to ‘not lose’, as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars — it’s a luxury I can’t afford.

They might not have the luxury stuff like some teams, but as far as having the stuff to work with, they’ve got it. That’s not a problem.

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

I haven’t got that luxury. The 16 or 18 players involved in the first team are basically the only players I’ve got.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

We never had this luxury before and it’s a nice problem to have. It’s an obvious advantage over any team, especially if you go to extra innings because your second pitcher won’t be as winded.

I think there is something about luxury – it’s not something people need, but it’s what they want. It really pulls at their heart.

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...

I don’t want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me who push and encourage me to be my ultimate best, who...

Both very, very talented and physical enough to handle anything. It gives you the luxury to be able to just dial a play knowing that you don’t even have to worry about what play it...

We are excited about entering the luxury automobile segment in the rapidly growing Latvian market as we have experienced 86% growth in cars sold in our existing business last year. It is an honor to...

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.