I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.
If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize.
'Shabiha' is a difficult word to translate into English. It comes from the word Syrians used to describe the luxury Mercedes favored by the Assad family's operatives that the enforcers of the regime used to move money, smuggle weapons and intimidate opponents.
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
Rather than being a luxury, emotions are a very intelligent way of driving an organism toward certain outcomes.
Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.
I want to spread the message in the U.S. that there are good philanthropists in China, and not all are crazy spenders on luxury goods.
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury.
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Gasoline prices are a direct reflection of the cost of the raw materials to produce the gasoline, no different than any other product that you would buy, whether it's a good or some other consumable, or it's a luxury item. It's all a function of what do the raw materials cost.
The luxury market and its consumer are very flexible and reactive.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
