Afford Quotes
1301 Afford quotes by 1036 unique authors
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Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,…
— William Shakespeare
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You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon…
— David Petersen
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My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor…
— William Shakespeare
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I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to…
— Michael Jackson
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To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
— E. M. Forster
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Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But…
— Sarah Dessen
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Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy…
— Douglas Coupland
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Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.
— Harold Bloom
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A civilization has the ethics it can afford
— Larry Niven
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Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
— Stephen King
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The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose…
— Portia de Rossi
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It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments…
— T.H. White
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You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought
— Peter McWilliams
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Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls…
— John Flanagan
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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
— Lionel Shriver
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• The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend it and the…
— Jennifer Crusie
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
— Adrienne Rich
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... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the…
— Diane Arbus
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They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.
— Frank McCourt
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Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high…
— Anne Rice
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If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along…
— Erich von Däniken
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It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered…
— Bill Bryson
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