Top 640 Afford Quotes

Because religion has such a compelling hold on the deep psyches of so many people, feminists cannot afford to leave it in the hands of the fathers.

It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.

That’s what we’re all about: delivering a really comfortable VR experience that everybody can enjoy and afford.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn’t afford to pay for long-term learning.

‘Answer The Call’ – we’re trying to support the real heroes of our world, the people who protect us and afford us freedom and give us that peace of mind.

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier – Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn’t afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

When I was a student, I couldn’t afford anything.

I’m blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

So we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

A mom can’t afford to be sick.

We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of ‘ethos.’

We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college – and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

I’m pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

I’m like, ‘Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I’m OK with who I am and I’m happy with who I am?’

I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be a phase, and they didn’t expect me to actually stick with it, and rightfully so. They were concerned whether I could afford groceries, being an actor.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we’d open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it’s the hippest thing to do. We’re just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

In addition to billions in new ‘stimulus’ spending that our country can’t afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and family-owned businesses while protecting the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.

After the Dirk Pitt books became best-sellers, I could afford to buy the more exotic examples of classic autos.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford… The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children.

Israel cannot afford a war of attrition.

Our workers comp debt is the Achilles heel of our state’s economy, and I firmly believe that in order to create more good jobs in West Virginia this system must be fixed and it must be fixed now. We cannot afford to wait even one more minute.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

Most of the population cannot afford a private driver. What we’re doing is relentlessly innovating to bring the price point down.

I guess HBO did a giant ‘War in the Pacific’ mini-series that cost, like, a fortune, and there was a little moment where they literally had no money. And even though the show had become kind of a cult hit, there was an issue of whether they could actually afford to do it.

I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn’t afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

I’ve operated on people from Canada that have come to Wyoming for me to take care of them because they couldn’t afford to wait long enough for their free operation.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.

I am not afraid of making mistakes. But my mistakes were those that I could afford. That’s very important: mistakes will happen but you must ensure that you keep them within limits you can afford.

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can’t afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn’t move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can’t afford.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can’t afford to buy weather.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can’t afford it, does it sound like compassion to you – or recklessness?

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

The biggest hurdle to writing Fargo Rock City was that I couldn’t afford a home computer – I had to get a new job so I could buy a computer. It could all change though. In five years, I could be back at some daily newspaper, which wouldn’t be so bad.

The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn’t otherwise have. So I’m very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that’s all I want.

The safety of the flying public should not be for sale. Handing air traffic control over to a private entity partly governed by the airlines is both a risk and liability we can’t afford to take.

I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

As for my state of Mississippi, our governor, Phil Bryant, said the state could not afford the matching funds required to trigger the federal match for Medicaid expansion. We won’t do it even though in 2014, the federal government would pay over $50 for every one dollar Mississippi chips in.

Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

The American people are screaming out saying it’s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.