Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of the most important factors in collective bargaining is establishing that the employer can afford the union's demands. The hotel industry will have a hard time making a case that it can't.

One of the most disappointing things is we don't see enough residential construction - especially affordable housing.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.

Mark McKinnon

Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with hydrocarbons for reliability.

Peter Munk

Maybe I'm less sensitive to these issues because I see that what people need first is economic security, and only when they have that can they afford to focus on human rights.

We have a lot of affordable housing. That is not the big hurdle.

Michael Barrett

We have a lot to prove early, and we have a lot of work to do early. To get to where we need to go, we can't afford a slow start.

We couldn't afford to take everybody to Hawaii, so we just brought a little Hawaii here to celebrate the nomination.

John Butler

We couldn't afford to quit at anytime in the game. We've had our backs to the wall the past few weeks and every game has been a playoff game for us. This one put us in the tournament.

We couldn't afford to lose any more money on a program that appealed to a very small number of people. As great as it was, it would go about 100 miles and take about six to eight hours to charge.

We couldn't afford for anything to go wrong.

We could never afford to do it at GM's (wage rate).

We have tried to make the festival affordable to families who might like to come for the weekend. We have expanded our camping spaces because some people like to stay right on site. We have not increased our prices.

We have to win games like this. Great teams can't afford to have slip-ups. We didn't have the right kind of focus we needed.

We just didn't do the little things well tonight. You can't afford that against a good team. We had some open looks, but just couldn't score and then we battled back, but we used so much energy we became fatigued.

We cant afford to lose him halfway through the season.

We can't afford to lose guys now for something stupid.

We can't afford to lose at home again. We know that.

We can't afford to lose any more if we have aspirations of a conference championship.

E. P. Thompson

We can't afford to look past anyone in this field, so we've got to go after it one game at a time.

We can't afford to let these destructive rodents get a foothold in this watershed. Once an aggressive non-native species ... gains a foothold, the long-term costs become enormous.

Chris Johnson

We can't afford to let our neighborhood regress to what it used to be. I think we can do something much better with that building.

Dennis Hastert

We can't afford to ignore this issue, this year, ... We, on both sides of the aisle, have held out a promise to America's seniors that we will give them the opportunity to have a prescription drug benefit and a new modern Medicare.

We can't afford to have turnovers against Raleigh. They're a good team. We have to get off to a faster start than we have been.

We can't afford to have those service errors. In game three, we had six bad serves that turned into six points for the other team.

We can't afford to have nurses on the road all the time.

We can't afford to have any of our potential goal scorers out, especially him.

Bob Hill

We can't afford to have another training camp now. We've just got to move forward and try to do the best we can the rest of the year.

We can't afford to go out and not compete for 32 minutes. It doesn't matter who's out on the court. We had a let-down in the third quarter, and we were in too big of a hole to pull ourselves out of in the fourth quarter.

Saku Koivu

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Michael Grant

We can't afford to give away games by not executing and not knocking down our free throws.

David Beckham

We can't afford to get carried away but we are in a position where we need just need to draw,