Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

Jodie Foster

I didn't work very much when they were young, and I had the luxury to be able to do that. Most people can't.

Keith Walker

It's two teams who know nothing about each other. Here, we won't have the luxury of preparation.

They are planning to offer a wide variety of boats, from personal watercraft up to a 38-foot luxury cruiser.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Billy Sherwood

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

Benjamin Franklin

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

We don't have the luxury of waiting one more shipping season to regulate these (overseas) vessels.

We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Adam Smith

It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

Ludwig von Mises

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.

Ludwig von Mises

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 sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.

Robert Kiyosaki

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

Dario Argento

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

Kurt Vonnegut

The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me.

Vandana Shiva

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Vandana Shiva

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.