Top 1200 Luxury Goods Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 5, 2024.
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.
Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.
To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.
The people who have more money and goods than any people in the history of the world spend most of their time worrying about not having enough.
We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
Most trade agreements arise from a desire to liberalise trade - making it easier to sell goods and services into one another's markets. Brexit will not.
The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918
What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ.
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.
It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.
Lesser-skilled workers suffer the entire burden of lower wages but capture only a portion of the benefits from lower-priced offshore goods.
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
An unsatisfied woman requires luxury, but a woman who is in love with a man will lie on a board.
Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
My job affords me the luxury of having help. I don't feel exhausted, I feel lucky.
The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana.
Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Rich country protectionism - barriers, subsidies and support - mean that the world supply of agricultural goods is artificially increased and world prices depressed.
What intrigued me most was not the technology as such but the questions about the human goods, the fundamental human values and virtues that are raised by debates over biotechnology.
With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
We are come for your good, for all your goods.
Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.
Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.
I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?
We can serve our customers well only if our buying jobs are right. You cannot sell if you haven't ordered wanted goods into your store.
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.
For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.
Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.
I don't think I've the luxury of being weak. Being strong is my only option.
I think there is something about luxury - it's not something people need, but it's what they want. It really pulls at their heart.
Wherever you go in Europe, you'll find each country has particular flavours in their baked goods. It is one of the big differences between Europe and the United States.
What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if
Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.
