Afford Quotes

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

Unity and secularism will be the motto of the government. We can't afford divisive polity in India.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

Things really began to move for us. In 1953 I could afford to marry Doreen.

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the things they could never afford to do. All the while, I never knew that my mother was socking money away.

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.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to provide coverage for their employees.

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

I am available to all women - all women who can afford me, that is.

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.

I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

Pharmaceuticals have become an increasingly important part of modern medicine, and our seniors shouldn't have to worry about whether they can afford the medicines they need to stay healthy and maintain their independence.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.