Pastoral Resources

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

My husband travels a lot with his job, so we have a lot of frequent flyer miles so we can hop on a plane with no notice. That's a nice luxury and he is very supportive.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

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

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.