Quotes About Exclusivity

Certe volte mi accade di non poter capire come un altro possa volerle bene, abbia il diritto di volerle bene, mentre io l'amo così esclusivamente, così intensamente e non conosco, non so, e non ho altro che lei.

For the primary function of culture in Gissing's scheme of things was to segregate him from other people. To qualify as culture, knowledge had to be abstruse.

Life's too short to eat anywhere else.

Shortly and briefly; however, significantly, the definition of discrimination is, Mine is Best; I am Best.

Sorry. There is not any place anymore for anyone. I am already in love with someone since I first come to know each other.

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood's forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

We do not invest in advertising... So racing is the best advertising for Ferrari.

When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'

If you're my woman, you're somebody I give emotions to that I don't give to nobody else. You're my safe space. I don't want my safe space to be compromised.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Truth is exclusive in every area, in religion, science, farming, and all things else. If you don't believe it, go pick your grapes from thorns, and your figs from thistles.

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

You can get all the pictures you want at fifty thousand dollars apiece – that's easy. But to get pictures at a quarter of a million apiece – that wants doing!

How can it be that God is known in only one religion—and then perhaps only in the "right" form of that religion?7

Does it make sense that the creator of the whole universe would be known in only one religious tradition, which (fortunately) just happens to be our own?