Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are still so many places in Gulf Shores that haven't been repaired or torn down from Ivan last year. I guess some places would be better off if they blew away...I don't think their owners can afford to repair them.

The only thing that is a problem at Mattel is the one thing it cannot afford to be a problem.

Muhammad Yunus

What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.

Muhammad Yunus

Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.

If ordinary citizens could use their Senate seats to receive $80 million in state contracts, we could all afford to put $2 million into our campaigns.

Groups of boats, still lashed together on the dock, they're just sitting up there out of the water. It's a problem. Nice boats, too; and before that, they couldn't even afford to fish. It was horrible.

Given the increasing competition from Microsoft and Nintendo, Sony can't afford any delays that may help its rivals get ahead.

French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home.

For years, the poor, poor people of Los Angeles county were between a rock and a hard place of having to buy insurance, but not being able to afford it.

Herbie Hancock

From '70 to '73 I'd had a sextet, but the band was not self-supporting and I couldn't afford it, so I broke it up. And then I didn't know what kind of music I wanted to do, because I was just fed up to here with it. It wasn't fulfilling anymore.

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Curt Schilling

Knowing that Joe has pitched as well as he has, it had nothing to do with him facing us the first time. He's been throwing the ball great. It felt like it was going to be a tight game, and then I gave up two runs in about two minutes, before anybody's even sitting in their seats. ... I couldn't afford to make a mistake after that.

Chris Johnson

Kids have the potential, but many don't come from families and neighborhoods that allow them to afford college at the current prices. There are limited alternatives to TAP.

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

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I yearn for human contact & the casual online games afford me options to socialize without actually going there.

Keeping college affordable is very important to us. We are going out of our way not to reduce services or raise costs.

Keep in mind, until a few years ago, we had no one who wanted to build anything in Tampa. Up until now, there's never been this level of crisis, this significant growth issue, that affordable housing has become. It's new for our city and our community.

Wayne Graham

Josh is a quality hitter, and against Long Beach it showed that we can not afford to have his bat out of the lineup. So until his arm is well, against quality opponents we're going to have to have Josh either play left field with a long relay man or play first base. His bat has got to be in the lineup.

Mark Zupan

It affords you opportunities to develop the relationships that you may have broken from when you were angry with the world.

Dale Jarrett

It accelerated everything a hundred-fold. There are things that we have put into place today that we'd still just be considering, but that made us realize that we couldn't afford to have that happen again.

I think it's a good contract. I think it's fair to both sides. I think it's affordable to the taxpayers. I don't think this contract is going to break the bank.

James Harris

I think it is fantastic. There was no way I could have afforded insurance before.

Michael Wolff

I think it is an understandable and pretty predictable course for him to take. Murdoch is a nervous guy. The idea that he might be missing out on something is awfully painful. But he is just dipping his toes in. Why buy these? Partly because he can afford them. He's not making big bets here.

I think it is irresponsible leadership to keep stealing from that fund, and it's got to change. We are seeing such a shortage of affordable housing that we are losing our work force. We need every dime we can get.

I think I proved my point. I think that winning the title at 154-pounds and knocking him out in the eleventh round, I think at this point in my career I really can't afford to give rematches to anyone I already knocked out.

It buys us a little time and I hope to find something more realistic, ... At least we have a permit. We can still go out and serve the food without worrying about if I can afford a fine.

O. Henry

It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.

Manuel Pangilinan

It better aligns First Pacific's book values with market values at this point in time, and the more realistic values afford a basis for sensible financial performance measures going forward.

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

James Johnston

It also limits their right to discovery, or information-gathering. Probably the biggest problem is that most of them require the cost of the arbitrator be split by the parties. A lot of these arbitrators charge a lot of money. It could be thousands and thousands of dollars. That puts an employee sometimes in a position where they can't afford to arbitrate their claims.

Robert Johnson

Burlington Northern denied these older workers benefits afforded to younger employees which had the effect, in some cases, of forcing them to retire earlier than they wanted to.

But as soon as we could afford to move back here, we did. We were raised here, and this will always be home.