Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wentworth Miller

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Samuel Richardson

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

W. H. Auden

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Robert Orben

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

William Graham Sumner

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

Samuel Johnson

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world

Miguel Ojeda

It's something I didn't even think twice about. But I have the luxury because I own my own business.

Heidi Michaelis

It's a luxury to have that type of player.

Charles Jencks

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Francis Schaeffer

Things, things, things. Always more things, and success is seen as the abundance of things.

Suze Orman

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.

John C. Calhoun

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

Adam Smith

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

Adam Smith

Under capitalism the more money you have, the easier it is to make money, and the less money you have, the harder.Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. The affluence of the rich supposes the indigence of the many.

Sandra Cisneros

My idea of a meal, if I was hungry, was to open a bag of potato chips.

Rachel Nichols

I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.

Lil Wayne

I'm so greedy, I'm hungry, I'm young.

Ron Allice

The men have been pretty patient, because they weren't in the indoor competitions (like the women's team). They were hungry to show where they stand.

Christopher Burge

The market is hungry for spectacular impressionist works as the smashing results for paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Monet indicate.

Joe Mullen

They're a team that is looking to win some games. They've got to be hungry (in their situation).

Jim Neal

They're hungry for information. As an industry, and as a specific carrier, I need to give my shippers that information, too.

Yolanda Griffith

Once you win one, you're hungry to win another one. So we'll be back next year.

Alleggrie Guinn

This win streak keeps our momentum up for the tournament because everyone is going into the tournament thinking they can win it. So we have to come in there and be hungry because at tournament time there's no telling what's going to happen.