Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Keith Busse

This is not trade based on comparative advantage. We are confronted with an economic crisis in the U.S. steel industry, stemming directly from the structural mismanagement by several governments of their economies. Neither the U.S. government, nor its steel industry, can afford to wait for the trade law process to take its course.

Ryan Donovan

This is probably the most challenging course we'll see all year. We really need to respect par - we can't afford to be trying to get too many birdies.

Andrew Brunette

This is such a tight battle with nine or 10 teams that are neck and neck. Coming home is big for us. We can't afford a letdown. A lot of times when you're on the road for a period of time, you come back and have a letdown for a game or two.

Grover Norquist

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy citizens what we can certainly afford to help through real charity.

Gary Ferguson

That's what the complaint is, ... People can't afford to live in Currituck.

David Graham

That's why this is for sale. I can't afford it anymore. I have to walk everywhere. Things have gone mad.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Source Unknown

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Steven Kaplan

This is a whole new era. This is a whole new day. We cannot be stopped. No one can hold us back,

John Parks

The way the damage was done to the shack it was not due to the wood stove or a candle. It was negligence but we cannot prove it.

Joyce Gibson

You write a letter of dispute to the credit reporting agency, they have 30 days to investigate the dispute and get back to you. If they cannot prove it's your debt, they have to take it off.

Arundhati Roy

You would remember in October 2000 the court had given its judgement, it had told the government give me a rehabilitation master plan in three months...it is 2006 now, in six years it has still not even given a master plan and you are talking about rehabilitation. So, now in three months, how will rehabilitation happen? It cannot happen.

Richard Greville

You should never be clever but when you cannot help it

Jami Attenberg

Your family is unavoidable. You cannot escape them or trade them in for another family. You also can't change them... but you can change your response to them.

Earl Brown

You never control your classroom. Your students do. They always have; they always will. You cannot be coercive enough for them.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Ken Kendrick

Randy is obviously an icon for this city. We'd love to have Randy be with us and finish his career with us. I think he knows that.

Tom Connelly

People who didn't care for Mike play up the negative stuff. There were a lot of vocal folks who were anti-Mike. He was unpopular if the person who he was investigating was your trainer.

Allan Miller

People feel like this is a place they can take their stuff and it will be cared for.

Mike McGuire

Anything is a gamble when you come out with a new product, If you don't take care of your most popular product and innovate it, somebody else is going to take it away from you.

Jill Furillo

The situation for nurses in Cook County is critical and getting worse every day in patient safety and keeping RNs in the system. What the nurses want, and the county needs, is for the RNs to have a strong voice in patient care decisions and staffing.

Yale Zhang

These consumers don't really care about the prices.

Diane Rowland

These conditions require care for more than 30 days.

Rick Byrd

The second half, we weren't as engaged and didn't seem to care as much.

Michelle Snow

I've been doing this for 20 years. I've seen hundreds of kids. Monica is dedicated to music. She's got perseverance. She's one of the few that will actually make it.

Pastor Birnbaum

We dedicated 17 new flags during this President's weekend and the groundbreaking was for the parking lot and landscaping improvements and getting ready for the 50th.

John Cena

When my job isn't performing in a WWE ring, my job is to get back performing in that ring. When I'm hurt, all I have to do all day is get strong and get better. I'm a very dedicated physical therapy patient, and that helps a lot.

Kimberly Schmitz

Five shows are specifically dedicated to beading, which has become a phenomenon. Even doggie sweaters are beaded now.

Carolyn Smith

We all have been singing the blues. We have dedicated full time the last month to the museum and we all have other jobs.

The Beatles

colorful, uplifting, lightning quick, music-filled evening of theatre dedicated to revolutionary American slave girl Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American published poet, whose poetic genius lifted her from New England parlor trick into the great salons of Europe and beyond.

Russ Diamond

Pennsylvania is tired of villains. We need heroes. These people are truly my heroes. They are dedicated to saving my Commonwealth. We need to return honor, dignity and integrity to these hallowed halls.

James Perkins

We are dedicated to seeing that his writings live. I was knocked out by his poetry and fiction writing. We're trying to get kids to keep on opening his books.

Jimmy Smith

We are dedicated to making our roads safer for everyone, that's why we've had this program for 19 years now.

Aaron Anderson

We needed a solution that would get all the right information to the drivers as quickly and as cost-effectively as possible.

Rick Mears

You hear a lot of drivers say they'll quit when they're not enjoying it. That's pretty much what happened to me. It was a combination of things, but mostly it was losing that enthusiasm I always felt before.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Bryce Harper

D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

Ariah Fasana

Dayton put on a very good tournament and they wrestled very well to win.

Tom Harkin

Compassionate conservatism is like trying to heat up an old house with warm thoughts. It might make you feel good but it doesn't stop you from freezing,

John Shelby

(Cobb) was throwing three pitches for strikes, so I went up there sitting on the change-up. I just hoped he would throw it and he did and I made good contact.

Rand Pecknold

Colgate has some good hockey players and did a great job tonight.

Colton Fretter

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Donald Trump

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving.

Don DeLillo

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Constance Baker Motley

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Steven Millhauser

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

Steven Moffat

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

Michael Hudson

A bubble is only called that after it bursts, after the insiders get out, leaving the pension funds and small investors, Canadians and other naïve investors holding the bag.

Shane Claiborne

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between them. As a result, we become less and less productive exactly when we need to be most productive.