Afford Quotes

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time! I like to admire from afar.

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage.

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

Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, while helping families afford their energy bills. By encouraging homeowners to invest in energy efficiency retrofits, Home Star would create 170,000 manufacturing and construction jobs that could not be outsourced to China.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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.

If I find what I like, maybe in about five years we'll be able to afford to build a home in the country.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.