Quotes with afford

  • There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
  • If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
  • We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.
  • A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
  • In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
  • There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
  • Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
  • Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
  • The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
  • Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
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  • Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Will Durant A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
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    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Frank A. Clark A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
    Frank A. Clark
    American politician
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  • C. S. Forester A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bill Frist 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.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Carol P. Christ Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.
    Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess (1987)
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Smith Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins 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.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Abbey Lincoln But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Ben Carson Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Billy Wilder Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
    The New Hollywood : American Movies in the 70s (1975)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Bob Latta Everyone wants clean air and clean water, but my hope is that we will not regulate it to the point where we drive businesses and industries out of this country, to the point where entrepreneurs cannot start or expand their businesses because they simply can't afford to do so.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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