Famous Quotes & Sayings

When strictly looking at dollars, the bottom line is that it will be more advantageous for us to keep working on a city basis. They are going after an ideal situation, but it is just more than we can afford to do.

Market expectations have priced a rate cut in. When markets are pricing it in like that, the Fed can't afford to give a downside surprise in this environment.

Holly Hunter

Little kids would come over, and dad would give them one. He used to give them to just his own kids -- he couldn't afford to give them to all kids.

I was under the impression that I was helping people buy a home who couldn't otherwise afford one.

I was in favor of the two percent, too, but I am not going to vote against the $400. But I do think that the way we did the budget, the way we did the financing, we could afford the two percent.

It even surprises us, the number of people who work but live on the street. They can't afford first- and last-month's rent for an apartment.

I think Saturday was good for us. We can't afford to lose focus, especially against a team like St. John's. Physically, St. John's is going to be the toughest team we have played. Mentally, we've got to avoid lapses.

I think most of us don't have much leisure time anyway. So you'll see people trying to squeeze in leisure when they can -- even people who can't afford it have a cell phone, so they can get things done on the run.

Anthony Daniels

We went up on rates, but as gas is increasing, I don't think it's doing any good, ... ... We can't stick it to the customer but so much. They can't afford it. If gas keeps going up the way it's going, I'm going to have to park my cab.

Josh Earnest

With all that is facing this country, our Congress and our nation can't afford the distraction of an ethically challenged majority leader.

Josh Turner

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

William Henderson

We're definitely in a position now where we can't afford to have older guys make mistakes, ... As much as people have made about how young we are ... we can't keep missing these opportunities.

Craig Alexander

We estimate that only Winnipeg and the Atlantic are more affordable than Calgary and Edmonton, but only because home prices in the former two are considerably cheaper than their Alberta counterparts.

We easily could be 3-2, if not 4-1. I really believe we're an improved team, but we can't afford to give the other team outs.

We have some really small schools that are so small that they can't even afford counselors, librarians and nurses. In order to do that, because of the fact that the Legislature is not giving us anymore money, we have to cut somewhere and what we are proposing to cut is part of the funding for the Project Grad program.

We have some kids who want to use this high school season and the Legion baseball as a springboard for college. I think high school baseball will afford colleges to recruit during the school year.

We have some extra numbers in positions where we can afford the opportunity to look at some of the European players in this game and rest some of the domestic players. An example of that would be Eddie Pope and Jim Conrad. Based on play over the past month and a half, they would be included in this roster if we were simply basing it on performances. But we have guys we need to look at now.

We are the engines of growth, and we can't afford to see those engines slow down.

We caved. We don't want to spend a bunch of taxpayers' money trying to defend this. The Department of Transportation threatened to hand us over to the Justice Department, and our county can't afford that kind of stuff.

We couldn't make a shot or get a stop at the particular time when we needed one. They got offensive rebounds and in the fourth quarter, you can't afford to do that.

Shane Doan

We played the whole game in our zone and we can't afford to do that. This is a challenge to each one of us in this room to be better.

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

Tom Daschle

We must prepare for it now. We cannot afford to dig ourselves into a fiscal hole as we did in the 1980s. We cannot afford to return to the fiscal irresponsibility and weakness of times past.

When you're in the right, you can afford to keep your temper. When in the wrong, you can't afford to lose it.

Tom Glavine

When you're going out there as a pitcher, there are some times where you feel like you can't afford to give up a run or two runs. That carries a lot of pressure. With the way we're set up right now, you don't figure that to be the case. You figure that these guys are going to score some runs, they're going to play defense and we know we've got a great bullpen coming in behind us.

We believe this is a great project. We feel that if we can offer quality, affordable housing then people will move here.

Kathleen Sebelius

I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.

I still feel we can run the ball, but we've got find that passing game to complement and keep (opposing) guys off of our backs. We can't afford to get in long-yard situations, especially since our offense isn't geared that way.

We just can't afford to take a day off. We'd be down Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and it would be hard to get caught back up.

We just can't afford to make mistakes and have the kind of bad luck we had in the first round.

We just can't afford to lose these schools. . . . They need special attention, and they need it urgently. They are a major part of the national strategy to close the education gap and have long been engines to the black middle class -- producing doctors, teachers, lawyers.

Rick Carlisle

We just can't afford not to have him available to play 38 to 40 minutes in a playoff game. It just makes it too hard on the rest of our team.

Tom Jones

We just allowed too many base runners. When you're not hitting, you can't afford to do that. Their fast start limited what we could do.