Famous Quotes & Sayings

We want to be careful not to direct the (local government) how to deal with it, but by the same token we didn't want a local government to ignore affordable housing.

Yusuf Hamied

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

Bob Filner

The government gets it right on Head Start. We are providing opportunities for children in underserved areas where parents may not be able to afford preschool so they can begin their schooling with a running or Head Start.

Orison Swett Marden

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

Bo Sanchez

As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.

We're not even thinking about Duke. We can't afford to.

We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love!The Children of the revolution

Mitt Romney

This nation can't afford presidential leadership that comes in 57 varieties, ... We need a decisive president who stands his ground. We need George W. Bush.

Lawrence Summers

We afford ourselves the best chance of maintaining stability in the highly complex Pacific region by inviting China into the global system rather than keeping it out,

We are giving everyone the opportunity to pay their pledges over a five-year period to make their investment as affordable as possible.

We're doing well because we make the more expensive boats. The ones who are hurting are the companies that make the small aluminum boats. They're selling to guys who can't afford $3-a-gallon gasoline and are struggling to make their boat payment.

Wayne Huizenga

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

Allyson Schwartz

In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy.

Amity Shlaes

Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits.

Amish Tripathi

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

Allan Sherman

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

Alice Oswald

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

We must make organic and farm-raised costs more affordable. We need to come to a level where people who don't have a lot of money can afford it. If we could eat just fresh foods, it would be wonderful.

Tom Vilsack

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

Walter Dean Myers

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

William Forsythe

I started movies in 1980. I don't think anything's changed for the best. When it comes down to certain technologies and certain things that have afforded more people to maybe have a shot at making a movie or something like that, that's good. But you also end up with 50,000 times the amount of bad movies, because now anybody can make a bad movie.

Becky G

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?'

Tadashi Shoji

It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.

We would like to bring both of them back, if we can afford them in our budget, but valuable players get to a point where maybe they are beyond what you can afford,

We definitely had an opportunity and let it slip away. You can't afford to do that on your home floor.

We definitely need to win one of the next two. We can't afford to lose any more.

We gave them some easy scores, which we said we couldn't afford to do and we never were able to get anything going offensively on the ground or in the air. We never had any momentum in the game.

We want to make sure that health benefits are available to anyone who needs them. At the same time, we recognize there are folks who need time to become solvent as a business so they can afford to offer full-blown insurance to their employees.

We want to make affordable housing an issue in the 2005 gubernatorial race. And we want to hold policymakers and lawmakers responsible for needed changes to the law. We want results. This coalition is not going to go away after Nov. 8.

We been together for less than two months and there are only 17 days before the next match, ... International matches are always prestigious, but this is one we can afford to lose.

Armistead Maupin

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

Bobby Jindal

I don't think anybody should be expanding Medicaid. I think it's a mistake to create new and more expensive entitlement programs when we can't afford the ones we've got today. We've got to stop this culture of government dependence.

The rapid pace of appreciation and other negatives has made housing become very unaffordable. About one-third of home buyers can afford the median price of a house using the traditional down payment of 20 percent down.