Cannot Afford Quotes

212 quotes by 190 authors

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford. — Dave Barry
The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take. — John O. Brennan
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford. — H. Rap Brown
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game. — Eric Cantona
Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will… — John Henrik Clarke
Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own… — Ed Koch
Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States… — Adam Schiff
The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to… — James Cromwell
we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The… — Bill Cosby
In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. — Clement Attlee
What good does it do to sit at the counter when you cannot afford a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr.
WHEN YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT, YOU CAN AFFORD TO KEEP YOUR TEMPER; AND WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WRONG, YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE… — Chester Bowles
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
I cannot afford to waste my time making money — Louis Agassiz
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and… — Henry David Thoreau
Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it. — Robert Kiyosaki
Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too… — Erica Jong
We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our… — Carolyn Maloney
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill… — Margaret Mead

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