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Quotes About Exclusivity

other party guests paraded just in front of us one by one in their chic outfits, but the thick leaves of a potted cyclamen shielded us from view.
~ Orhan Pamuk
He felt again irresistibly drawn to her. He felt there was a secret bond, a secret thread between him and her, something very exclusive, which shut out everybody else and made him and her possess each other in secret.
~ D. H. Lawrence
No, that's not right," Ferris replied. "The lines should be voluptuous, like a Ferrari.
~ Walter Isaacson
Why did you need to see my ID?" "This is an exclusive service, Mr. Orlean," she said with no chink of humanity in her face. "And we like to know exactly who it is we're dealing with." "Oh," I said. "So it wasn't because of my clothes or my race?" "The lower races come in all colors, Mr. Orlean. And none of them get back here.
~ Walter Mosley
To overlook extra possibilities is the fallacy of false dichotomy.
~ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
If there were twelve roads leading to the one goal, would it matter which you took? Since God has distinctly said that He wishes us to take one particular road — the Catholic road — it does matter. Any doctrine which begins with the fundamental notion that one religion is as good as another soon ends in the conclusion that one religion is as useless as another. And the children of those who insist upon proclaiming that principle end up, as a rule, with no religion at all.
~ Charles M. Carty
I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'
~ Cher
I hate to make the comparison here, but think of me as one of those expensive boutiques. If you have to ask about the cost, you probably can't afford me.
~ Cherie Priest
When we marry, I should like for you to wear that yellow dress. But only for me. I shouldn't like any other man gawking at your . . . well, surely you know of what jiggly bits I refer to." "Only you," she murmured.
~ Cheryl Bolen
You are obliged to tell the people you're sleeping with whether or not you're sleeping with them exclusively. There are no exceptions to this rule. Ever. For anyone. Under any circumstances. People have the right to know if the people they are fucking are also fucking other people. This is the only way the people fucking people who are fucking other people can make emotionally healthy decisions about their lives.
~ Cheryl Strayed
High-class people have this concept called space, which means you cannot ask them questions or give them opinions about certain aspects of their life.
~ Chetan Bhagat
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
~ H.H. Munro (Saki)
something will only be perfect when no-one else is doing the same thing as you
~ Hannah Davies
Pinky Fein, a friend of Oscar's, owns the Gilded Lily, a four-star Midtown restaurant renowned for its beggar purses- paper-thin crepes filled with créme fraîche and Beluga caviar, tied into small bundles with chives, lightly sprayed with edible gold leaf, and presented like candles in a candelabra.
~ Hannah Mccouch
Il n'est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger.
~ Lautreamont Ducasse Isidore
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.
~ leary timothy ii
Poor fellow, he needed handmade shoes because of his 'awkward feet' and Savile Row suits because he wasn't lucky enough to have the figure for ready-made ones. Cheap wine played havoc with his stomach so he drank expensive ones, and because he couldn't fit into economy-size airline seats he was forced to go everywhere first class.
~ Len Deighton
These exuberant proclamations of equalitarianism in sundown towns exemplify not only base hypocrisy but also what sociologists call herrenvolk democracy -- democracy for the master race. White Americans' verbal commitment to nondiscrimination forms one horn of what Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal famously called The American Dilemma. Blatant racism forms the other horn. In elite sundown suburbs, this dilemma underlies what we shall later term the paradox of exclusivity.
~ James W. Loewen
I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.
~ Jane Austen
I thought you wanted to date other women? I didn't want to date other women. We decided in the heat of the moment that were no longer exclusively attached. And I could date other men. Morelli was starting to look annoyed. Have you been dating other men? Maybe. As long as it isn't Ranger, Morelli said. I don't think Ranger dates.
~ Janet Evanovich
I don't go to celebrity parties a lot. I don't really enjoy them because I really like going for it in parties. And sometimes at celebrity parties, there is no dancing on tables because people... it can be a little judgmental at times. So I tend not to go unless it is Taylor Swift's birthday party; then it's amazing.
~ Sam Smith
If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.
~ Heather Brooke
A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.
~ James Galanos
The reality is when you make 'America First' a bumper sticker and pump it overseas, what you're telling them is 'America Only'.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal