#luxury

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life. ↗

— Linda Vester

#anchoring #because #i #i love #i think

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#entertainment world #luxury #mainly #music #often

So what should we do with our last few days?” “I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you,” Peete replies. “Come on, then,” I say, pulling him into my room. It feels like a luxury, sleeping with Peeta again. I didn’t realize until now how starved I’ve been for human closeness. For the feel of him beside me in the darkness. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #luxury #life

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. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics #leisure #luxury #wealth #life

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#poverty #poverty

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#countries #democracy #industrial #limited #luxury

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#automobile #baseball #evil #fans #follows

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ↗

— Ted Morgan

#afford #army #hires #howard #howard hughes

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#could #every #every time #experience #great

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#ahead #attack #big #deals #enemy