Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of the Mall - govern our lives, we are in escalating danger of destroying the commonwealth of all sentient beings - bugs and bees and buntings - on which we depend for a luxurious life on planet earth.
My mother was a star-struck girl from a little town in Arkansas who had gone to finishing school in New York, and whose mother had given her anything she ever wanted.
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.
I came from a family who believed in the “Rights of Man,” who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.
If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
I have never cared enough about money to worry about spending it, and have been fortunate to make enough to be spoiled rotten.
It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.
It is a pity that you students aren't fully aware of the luxury and abundance in which you live.
Her mother was a cultivated woman - she was born in a greenhouse
