Afford Quotes

I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

I have, I think to do a play a year is very good if you can afford the time and the energy because it's difficult to do, it's really the actors medium of course, because you're really out there and nobody's yelling cut so, yeah I have.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.