Pastoral Resources

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

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

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

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.

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

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.

We've turned down multi million dollar films, simply because we liked the film better. We have the luxury to do so - we have projects that make the money, and others that we do for love.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

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.

To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.