Cannot Afford Quotes

212 quotes by 190 authors

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E. M. Forster
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
Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion. — Khushwant Singh
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.… — Alain de Botton
If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be *psychologically* disabled as well. — Stephen Hawking
Let me say to you what I said once, in an entirely different context to Catherine the Great," Magnus declared. "My dear lady, you cannot… — Cassandra Clare
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. — Peter Drucker
If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
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
I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. — John F. Kennedy
Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are. — Harsha Bhogle
We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half. — Chen Shui-bian
It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a… — Patrick Soon-Shiong
I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice. — Robert Kiyosaki
Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time. — Cyrus Broacha
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait… — Thomas Friedman
Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? — Mo Ibrahim
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves. — John Clute

Who Wrote These Cannot Afford Quotes

190 authors contributed a total of 212 Cannot Afford Quotes, led by these top contributors: