#luxury

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. ↗

— James Forrestal

#cannot #country #deceptive #defensive #luxury

I've got the luxury to tailor make the songs so I can sing them. ↗

— Glenn Tipton

#i #i can #luxury #make #sing

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#else #feel #luxury #ourselves #right

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#danger #door #fangs #knows #learns

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #luxury #people #possibility #talk

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#courses #evaluating #golf #had #how

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. ↗

— Andrew Young

#expired #kingdoms #luxury #many #soft

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