Cannot Afford Quotes
212 quotes by 189 authors
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The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to…
— Martin Scorsese
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay…
— Thomas Sowell
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We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.
— Fred Upton
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Stupidity—The top of the list for Satanic Sins. The Cardinal Sin of Satanism. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful. Ignorance is one thing, but…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a…
— Clara Barton
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an…
— Charlotte Bronte
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My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the mouth…
— Steve Martin
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...how can we live in the richest, most privileged country in the world, at the peak of its economic performance, and still hear the Republicans,…
— Paul Wellstone
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Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
— Douglas Adams
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The…
— Joanne Harris
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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is…
— Douglas Adams
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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after…
— Libba Bray
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Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings…
— Shel Silverstein
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
— Leonard Cohen
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Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable.…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Then I know Prim is right, that Snow cannot afford to waste Peeta's life, especially now, while the Mockingjay causes so much havoc. He's killed…
— Suzanne Collins
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.…
— Bill Watterson
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