Cannot Afford Quotes

212 quotes by 190 authors

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful. — Dag Hammarskjold
Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to… — Newt Gingrich
The flight of most members of a profession to the high empyrean, where they can work peacefully on purely scientific problems, isolated from the turmoil… — Gerald Holton
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when… — Desmond Tutu
When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease. — Elizabeth I
Drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than on research, more on research on lifestyle drugs than on life saving drugs, and almost nothing… — Joseph Stiglitz
When you are in the public eye you cannot afford to show doubts. I do my crying alone. — Harry Beitzel
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily… — Garrett Hardin
I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are… — Ralph Fiennes
What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity. — Sun Tzu
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its effort to perpetuate… — Jeremy Rifkin
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford. — Ambrose Bierce
We cannot afford to put off change any longer. We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four… — James Hansen
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a… — Kofi Annan
In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are called lazy. Those… — Michael Parenti
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security. — Henry A. Kissinger
The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it. — Frank Muir

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