[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.

It’s not a luxury if you can’t do without it!

Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels… Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession...

Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine,Yet let’s be merry; we’ll have tea and toast;Custards for supper, and an endless hostOf syllabubs and jellies and mincepies,And other such ladylike luxuries.

Everyone’s life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.

Ah, this is true. And this is false. What’s the best to you may be worst to someone else. Since every room here is completely different, each room is number one to someone, even if...

Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He...

We are about to sacrifice our civilization for the opportunity of a very small number of people to continue to make enormous amounts of money. […] But it is the sufferings of the many which...

It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

We take food for granted, but it isn’t a luxury for many people.

Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room.It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him...

It seems to make little sense how a person’s self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person’s round or pointy-tip...

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction’s fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can’t afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the...

When my son speaks of playing sports, I’ve always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the guy who owns the team. I’ve always told my son: most of the...

We do not have the luxury of blaming others for our own problems. It is high time we addressed our national and regional problems with courage, sincerity and openness.

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.