Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are working to keep the system as reliable as we can and keep the price of electricity as affordable as we can. We do that through aggressive tree trimming. In 2005 we spent over $50 million trimming rights of way, more than $21 million in the southern region that includes Hendersonville.

John Young

We are working throughout the borough with the community, with elected officials, and civic organizations to foster economic growth as well as support the creation of attractive and affordable housing to neighborhoods and provide the city's largest borough with an even better future.

We can't operate now with our heads down. We're disappointed. We've got basketball ahead of us and we have a huge game Saturday. It's important for our team to bounce back. The natural reaction might be to be down, but we can't afford that. We have to step up.

We constantly seek to improve the health and well-being of those in the uniformed services and their family members. Information sharing visits such as this afford us the opportunity to better understand our healthcare partners who strive to provide our beneficiaries the very best in patient care and technology,

We are collaborating with Washoe Medical Center to essentially provide affordable housing to their employees. In exchange for that, they will guarantee to purchase the units upon completion.

Tom Daschle

We can't afford to wait, ... We must restore integrity to our investment and pension systems and strengthen government oversight of them. We cannot allow what happened to Enron employees happen to the rest of America.

Bob Woodruff

We can't afford to wait that long to see if the contract is right or wrong.

James Hansen

We can't afford to wait another 10 years.

Craig Bellamy

We can't afford to start like that in a final, but the positives we can take out of it is the way we managed to get back in the game and in the end we were in a position to win it.

We can't afford to start a game not sharp. Our offensive energy needs to be higher. Holy Cross had a lot to do with that. They are a physical team that plays great defense.

We can't afford to spend $1 in every $4 on health care. The system has to change.

Chris Bosh

We can't afford to shoot ourselves in the foot early in the game.

We can't afford to rely solely on being better conditioned than our opponents. There are other facets of wrestling that we need to improve on - we often find ourselves in bad positions on the mat and that got in some trouble tonight.

We can't afford to put the ball on the ground. It should be a quick game. It won't be one of those four-and-half hour games. After an hour and half, we'll probably be back on the bus. Hopefully, we'll be happy on the ride home.

We can't afford to make mistakes. I, myself, I'm supposed to be leading on this team. Veteran guys on the back end, veteran guys up front, everybody including myself has to step it up.

Jeff Fisher

We can't afford to make a mistake or telegraph a route or drop our eyes or those kinds of things because they will be all over them.

David Walker

We can't afford to make all the tax cuts permanent.

We can't afford to lose that bar. It's our only regular income.

Tom Renney

We really do have to get our heads around the way the game is being called. We're growing up in a hurry here, and we cannot afford to play hockey like we did tonight or our growth will be stunted in a real hurry.

We really can't afford to lose more production.

Tom Renney

We really can't afford to look past the next 20 minutes of hockey. There are some neat things building between the Devils and ourselves and we're happy about that for everybody concerned.

When I was first given an approximate calculation of the amounts being paid to buy up this contract, I was shocked. And I'm still shocked. If they can afford to pay out millions of dollars for services they are not going to receive, it raises the question of whether they have other situations where they are not being prudent with their money.

Ed Asner

When I was working my way up, it seemed to me that only Westerns and 'Star Treks' or sci-fi movies could afford to get away with presenting the problems - like prejudice and desegregation, for instance - that we face in our everyday lives.

We would never be able to afford a $38,000-a-year education. I am doing something I love while getting a college education.

We would love to start some sort of association of the arts in Haiti to promote the education of children, who can't otherwise afford it,

We had a deficit and could no longer afford to do what we have been doing. Last year, we laid several employees off. In 2006, we're no longer in deficit spending mode, but we've lost critical programs and services, so now we'll ask the voters to change that.

John Gokongwei

We at Sun Cellular will definitely continue our consistent business policy of offering the best value for consumers' money. Yes, we shall offer the most affordable but reliable service.

We ask them to make sure they're ready and they can afford failure. And the other thing is, can they afford success? You have to be ready if your product takes off.

We believe our county cannot afford this moratorium.

Earl Blumenauer

To the best of my knowledge, ... there is not city in America -- large or small -- where people who are at minimum wage can afford basic housing.

Rabindranath Tagore

Truth cannot afford to be tolerant where it faces positive evil.

Cicely Tyson

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.

Isaac Barrow

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.