Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Gore

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer than we're used to dealing with, it gives us the illusion that we have the luxury of time. Neither of those things is true.

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Coco Chanel

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

E. M. Forster

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Drake Bell

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

Donella Meadows

Speak the truth. Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently, and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power. Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence. All growth is not good. The environment is a necessity, not a luxury. There is such a thing as enough.

Dodie Smith

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andre Balazs

One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Elliott Smith

I've been here all three nights. I kind of like it down here by the river.

Sara Schopper

That's kind of how we've been all year at the line. We've been in and out all year.

Jane Goodall

Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.

Bryant H. McGill

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

Bellamy Young

From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

Dean Koontz

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Cobie Smulders

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.