luxury

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d1e9d54	There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read--unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.	reading humor luxury eating	E. Nesbit
9875d34	Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.	luxury	Dodie Smith
899a5c7	"A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor."	meaning reason humor lestat singer luxury logic vampire	Anne Rice
c15f3d4	Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.	courage hostage luxury enemies	Orson Scott Card
2967688	Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.	money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom	Randy Alcorn
0ff6cd6	The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.	survivalism softness luxury weakness paradise	Frank Herbert
2047841	Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.	luxury	Edith Wharton
7e2d480	Era ella quien se abria como una sandia madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordia, lo aranaba, lo chupaba, gemia, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer. Era en su carne compasiva donde se sumergia hasta perder el aliento y volverse esponja, medusa, estrella de altamar.	sex love luxury	Isabel Allende
df4e792	The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.	motivation science success love wisdom ascension atlanta belize mindfulness locs natural-hair new-thought women-of-color brandi-bates vegan luxury quotes knowledge human-nature	Brandi L. Bates
fc8f338	I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some bewigged ancestor awash with loot from the War of the Spanish Succession or some such lucrative away fixture.	humor luxury	Sebastian Faulks
0795283	Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechts' famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht's Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter - Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock.	story life all and application atro badfeller beck blend capital coldcats crockett davy deanna fast-foods features for from had lifetime local make-up menü mill moderate once planet-famous size sock square stall taught the there was were missing year where he collecting of hood to little luxury bounty goes everything city folklore university	Christina Engela
ebbf616	Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to spend my life making objectively useless things means [...] I am not exclusively chained to the grind of mere survival. It means we still have space left in our civilization for the luxuries of imagination and beauty and emotion - and even total frivilousness. Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine [...]). Pure creativity is something better than necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting.	be-creative dare-to-be-pointless frivilous frivilousness making-art luxury make-art create creativity	Elizabeth Gilbert
095532b	It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.	time multitasking luxury	Michael Pollan

d1e9d54

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read--unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

reading humor luxury eating

E. Nesbit

9875d34

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

luxury

Dodie Smith

899a5c7

"A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor."

meaning reason humor lestat singer luxury logic vampire

Anne Rice

c15f3d4

Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.

courage hostage luxury enemies

Orson Scott Card

2967688

Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.

money poverty wealth heaven christianity god provision stewardship sharing riches luxury help kingdom

Randy Alcorn

0ff6cd6

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

survivalism softness luxury weakness paradise

Frank Herbert

2047841

Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.

luxury

Edith Wharton

7e2d480

Era ella quien se abria como una sandia madura, roja, jugosa, tibia, ella quien sudaba esa fragancia penetrante de mariscos, ella quien lo mordia, lo aranaba, lo chupaba, gemia, agonizaba de sofoco y de placer. Era en su carne compasiva donde se sumergia hasta perder el aliento y volverse esponja, medusa, estrella de altamar.

sex love luxury

Isabel Allende

df4e792

The reason why many people remain on the bottom is because they play to 'not lose', as opposed to playing to win at all costs.

motivation science success love wisdom ascension atlanta belize mindfulness locs natural-hair new-thought women-of-color brandi-bates vegan luxury quotes knowledge human-nature

Brandi L. Bates

fc8f338

I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some bewigged ancestor awash with loot from the War of the Spanish Succession or some such lucrative away fixture.

humor luxury

Sebastian Faulks

0795283

Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities on Deanna, all moderate in size, but the largest was the capital, Atro City. For the connoisseur of fast-foods, Albrechts' famous hotdogs and coldcats were sold fresh from his stall (Albrecht's Takeaways) on Lupini Square. For the sake of his own mental health he had temporarily removed Hot Stuff Blend from the menu. The city was home to Atro City University, which taught everything from algebra and make-up application to advanced stamp collecting; and it was also home to the planet-famous bounty hunter - Beck the Badfeller. Beck was a legend in his own lifetime. If Deanna had any folklore, then Beck the Badfeller was one of its main features. He was the local version of Robin Hood, the Davy Crockett of Deanna. The Local rumor mill had it he was so good he could find the missing day in a leap year. Once, so the story goes, he even found a missing sock.

story life all and application atro badfeller beck blend capital coldcats crockett davy deanna fast-foods features for from had lifetime local make-up menü mill moderate once planet-famous size sock square stall taught the there was were missing year where he collecting of hood to little luxury bounty goes everything city folklore university

Christina Engela

ebbf616

Human artistic expression is blessedly, refreshingly nonessential. That's exactly why I love it so much. [...] The fact that I get to spend my life making objectively useless things means [...] I am not exclusively chained to the grind of mere survival. It means we still have space left in our civilization for the luxuries of imagination and beauty and emotion - and even total frivilousness. Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine [...]). Pure creativity is something better than necessity; it's a gift. It's the frosting.

be-creative dare-to-be-pointless frivilous frivilousness making-art luxury make-art create creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert

095532b

It seems to me that one of the great luxuries of life at this point is to do one thing at a time. One thing to which you give yourself wholeheartedly, uni-tasking.

time multitasking luxury

Michael Pollan