Afford Quotes
1301 Afford quotes by 1036 unique authors
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The only reason I ever played in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
— Sam Snead
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San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers…
— Gavin Newsom
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Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
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One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense…
— Anish Kapoor
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In my opinion, any man who can afford to buy a newspaper should not be allowed to own one.
— Roy Hattersley
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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…
— Bill Frist
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Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
— Millard Fuller
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Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford…
— Khushwant Singh
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Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music. A musician's responsibility…
— Gabor Szabo
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
— Samuel Johnson
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The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student…
— James Loeb
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If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least…
— Jim Yong Kim
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Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking…
— Jeff Bingaman
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Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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A child is an eager observer and is particularly attracted by the actions of the adults and wants to imitate them. In this regard an…
— Maria Montessori
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Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,…
— Robert Owen
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We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come…
— Mamie Till
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If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t…
— Juan Cole
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Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
— Joel Salatin
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Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to…
— Tina Brown
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I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford…
— Herb Ritts
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The correct attitude of the security analyst toward the stock market might well be that of a man toward his wife. He shouldn't pay too…
— Benjamin Graham
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I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
— James Ellroy
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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
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I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the…
— Billy Collins
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