“We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily.” HumansCan DoSurrenderLuxuryArticles Book:The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ... Source: The Clockmaker: Or, The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville ...
“I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."” WorldShouldHumansFactsUseLife IsCan DoHuman BeingsInfluenceTaughtEqualDespairWesternDoctrineLuxuryDestructiveFedsMortalityOverwhelmingLeisureContemplatingPrivilegedIndulgePlaywrightPointlessIndulge InAffluence Author:Kenneth Tynan
“We have the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should tolerate even them whenever we can do so without running a great risk; but the risk may become so great that we cannot allow ourselves the luxury.” ShouldMayRunningCan DoRiskAtheismPositive AtheismLuxuryTolerateGreat Risk Author:Karl Popper
“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!” I CanCan DoLet MeLuxury Author:Oscar Wilde
“When I started out, I was a television writer, and we wrote a television show that was on live every week. And you didn't have the luxury of coming in and waiting to be inspired. You came in and you had to write. And you wrote, because it was going to be live on the air. So I can do that.” WritingI CanShowsWaitingCan DoAirWeekTelevisionInspiredLuxuryTelevision ShowsBe Inspired Author:Woody Allen