Luxury Quotes

Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

People who are overweight face discrimination. African-Americans face discrimination. Women face discrimination and sexism. So I don't have the luxury of not being tolerant of anyone.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

It's a luxury to be understood.

I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.

It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others.

The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not."

To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.

The art business is a rarified business and appeals to an audience capable of spending money on a luxury. Too often the atmosphere in a gallery borders on snobbishness.

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.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

What made you so unforgiving? (Simone) Be grateful that you have the luxury of asking me that question. Pray to whatever god you worship that you’ll always be ignorant. (Xypher)

who are you? really." Nykyrian shrugged. "Never figured it out. takes too much time to think about myself, and time is one luxury i don't own." pg.90

I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.

Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.

What luxury would I take to a desert island? A mirror. It's true. I'd miss me.

We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!" I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible. Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.

Books are my one luxury. I have a lot of large coffee-table-size art books, in the shelves above my bed, about people like Warhol, Basquiat and Velasquez.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not. If you're an artist, an actor, and you don't have to work, then you do work that you wanna do.

Wanting to work is a luxury; having to work is not.

You know that when you suggest something on the page, it's going to be there, plus more. It's a great luxury to know that you don't have to push it. You just lay it out, and it will be there.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

It's mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It's not feeding the starving millions. It's feeding a luxury market.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.

Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

Walk your dogs on the beach that's my luxury. The food's not so good in West Palm, but you can't have it all.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.