Luxury Of Living Quotes

#1. Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Paulo Coelho

#2. There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

Robert Plant

#3. All living things are manipulated as long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Having plenty of living space has to be the greatest luxury in a city, and I guess in some sense Bombay is the antithesis of what living in Canada must be.

Aravind Adiga

#5. The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

Robert Sternberg

#6. But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that

Clifford D. Simak

#7. Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

Joseph Addison

#8. A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Simon Barnes

#9. we build him a temple, but we live in our own houses." Religion

Eric Metaxas

#10. The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the luxury of disposal: discharging trash into space has long been judged a bad idea.

Rose George

#11. Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

J.F Hermann

#12. Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Polly Toynbee

#14. When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Agnetha Faltskog

#15. Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles

#16. For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

Romany Malco

#17. Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Oscar De La Renta

#18. Try as much as you can to mention death. For if you were having hard times in your life, then it would give you more hope and would ease things for you. And if you were having abundant affluence of living in luxury, then it would make it less luxurious.

Umar

#19. Real luxury is not working like a maniac to take an expensive vacation--it is living a life you enjoy every day.

Kathy Gottberg

#20. Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Theodor Adorno

#21. She marched along, wondering how it could be that some people had to work their fingers to the bone and risk their lives in order to make a living and others could just sail around in the lap of luxury.

Leslie Meier

#22. I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

Truth Devour

#23. Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.

Ma Jian

#24. My greatest hope for a future without another Deepwater Horizon disaster lies in our schools, living rooms and community centers, not in boardrooms, political chambers and big industry. If this happens again, we won't have the luxury of the unknown to shield us from answering 'Why?'

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#25. Capitalism will always come after us.

Clementine Ford

#26. Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

Patricia Arquette

#27. It's a luxury to play. I get to play basketball for a living. I'm a lucky guy and I'm thankful for everything I have and what I get to do. I realize how many people would give their left foot to just play one game in the NBA. This is the NBA!

Chris Bosh

#28. The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life
we went soft, we lost our edge.

Frank Herbert

#29. Nonviolent ideals were cheap to hold if you were a scientist, living inside the Protego bubble cast by the police officers and soldiers whose actions you had the luxury to question.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#30. It's like, if I had the luxury of choice, and didn't have to worry about making a living, I would definitely want to get into whatever field it was that allowed me to push further and further comedically. Because that's the joy of it.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#31. Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#32. Success is not a luxury. It's a must. Succeed or die

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#33. I think all countries need to aim to cut the CO2 emissions per person, taking account of externalities like imports and exports.

Martin Rees

#34. The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Egerton Brydges