Pastoral Resources

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 the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.