Pastoral Resources

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

So, there's like one luxury you take and since we do that, y'know, you're involved with people in suits; business people all the time. But hey, if I sit down on a bar and they leave, good for me.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.