#luxury

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#come #england #expectation #fairly #had

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#enable #escape #good #good advice #greatest

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#career #decisions #going #hard #hard time

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely. ↗

— Adrian Belew

#band #finest #forget #gets #i

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#cannot #class #luxury #structures #we cannot

Staying in luxury hotels still gives me a kick, especially Oulton Hall in Yorkshire. I'd stay in a hotel for the breakfast and room service. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#especially #gives #hall #hotel #hotels

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#like #luxury #need #simplicity

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. ↗