Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Andrew Carnegie

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Simon Cowell

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

Rachel Cohn

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a luxury to be understood.

Lady Gaga

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

Karl Lagerfeld

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Judith Thurman

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Elizabeth Gaskell

It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Michael Ignatieff

We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it.

Samantha Smith

Well, I asked him who would start the war first.