Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

We can't afford another spanner in the works.

We can't afford another slip up. No one will win this league with three losses.

Sander Levin

In terms of Medicare, I'm in favor of sitting down and having a serious discussion about the likely impact of the Affordable Care Act, health-care reform, on the cost issue and changing the fee-for-service structure.

Sander Levin

It is imperative that women have quality affordable day care available to them because without it, families suffer.

Sander Levin

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

Sam Snead

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

Rory Stewart

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

Olivier Theyskens

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

Marco Rubio

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.

Steve McNair

We had opportunities to make big plays and we did it in spurts and we just have to continue to minimize the mistakes. One thing about this offense is we cannot afford to make too many mistakes, we are killing ourselves. Anytime that you are 3rd-and-2 and it turns to 3rd-and-7 it changes the whole philosophy of the game, the game plan and game calling.

Karl Malone

We had one guy come up to us and tell us to go to another neighborhood and that these people could afford to pay, ... I told him, 'Why should they pay? They just lost everything.'

We have this huge need (for affordable housing), and we thought, how in the world can we begin to satisfy the need?

Pau Gasol

We have this five game (home) stretch here, and we've already lost two, and we just cannot afford to lose anymore. I will do whatever it takes and trying to play with a little more confidence than I did before these two games and be more aggressive.

Typically Virginia ranks among the 10 most affordable states to buy gas in.

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.

Rose George

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

Quincy Jones

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

The demand for the 'luxury look' is back. Americans want to be fashionable and elegantly dressed but that doesn't mean they want to go broke in the process, ... Consumers know that they can get that well-dressed look for an affordable price, and that's why the specialty apparel chains like Gap ( GPS : Research , Estimates ) and Ann Taylor ( ANN : Research , Estimates ) are performing well.

David Lord

The demand for Final Four tickets soared when this event went corporate, ... Corporate interests are the ones that can really afford to push the price, and they want more than tickets.

The debt proves that the more than doubling of staff expenses was not affordable and still isn't, ... The supervisors need to discipline themselves to consider long-term decisions.

The debate about tax cuts shouldn't be whether they helped or not -- they clearly helped taxpayers. The debate should be whether we can afford them and whether they can lead to a sustained recovery in economy.

Mike Enzi

Today's vote is the first major step in 15 years toward more affordable health insurance options for small business and working families. The people who make up the bedrock of our economy - small, family owned businesses, have demanded change.

Time is money. Yves Saint Laurent is eating up a quarter of Gucci's profits. How long can they afford that?

Today, shop owners and their employees are constantly challenged to succeed in an ever-changing business environment and to stay current with the advancements of automotive technology. The delivery of management education and technical training through the KEYS program will afford automotive professionals more opportunities to further their education. KEYS will offer automotive professionals solutions to the many challenges they face each day.

We need to ensure that we do what is right, what is legal, what is affordable and, most importantly, what is safe.

JT Woodruff

We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope that we at least sell the same amount we sold of our last album. If it's more than that, great. We're on an independent label so we're not afforded the same things that major label bands are. We don't have the same outlets available to us, but we have different outlets that work for us that don't work for major label bands.

We need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot. ... We can't afford to drive the ball for six-plus minutes and come up empty.

We have large e-mail providers, including AOL, that want to turn e-mail communication into a privileged realm for those who can afford to pay a corporate tax.

Unless you have a crystal ball that guarantees you'll be healthy for the next year, you're better off signing up if you can afford it.

We gift wrapped this game and they dropped it. We can't afford to play like this (tomorrow) or we'll lose by 40.

E. B. White

We get families with kids and retired people, and I'm sure they're all on fixed incomes where they can't afford that extra for gas, so I can understand that.