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

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

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

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

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

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

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.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

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.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

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

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

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

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

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.

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.