Famous Quotes & Sayings

All the cards are stacked against the little guy. Filing a lawsuit isn't that expensive -- at least not to a big corporation. But if you're an artist or consumer, who can afford such a thing?

Maria Edgeworth

And all the young ladies said that a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it.

And I don't think they will - particularly because I don't think that Webb can afford to run a negative campaign in a Democratic primary, since he already has to convince Democratic voters that he's one of them, and running a negative campaign would be counterproductive in that context.

The environment . . . is not a luxury good, only affordable when all other problems have been solved.

The environmental community is being more diligent in bringing win-win issues to the Legislature that not only help protect our air, land and water but also help our business friendly-manner. That combination has afforded us the opportunity to be taken more seriously.

The Chargers of the '60s were distinctly styled, conveying fast, powerful and affordable performance. That was a winning design formula then, and that's our design formula for 2006.

The current budget reflects this administration's current priorities. They wanted a budget that gives more money to schools. The legislators have other priorities. The budget also includes money for older projects. Those projects that we can afford to move on, we will. There are several hundred projects on hold waiting for review.

The first thing you do is try to keep your team in condition. You can't afford with two weeks off to suffer from a conditioning aspect. The second thing is that you want to stay sharp in your execution and sharp mentally, particularly in the week leading up to the tournament.

The first stop when you're shopping for a home should always be the lender. They will tell you how much home you can afford and you can look at the various financing techniques available.

The city proper can serve their needs quite well as the neighborhoods come back, ... There are plenty of low-cost, affordable homes that need to be fixed up, and lots of young people, graduate students, who are willing to buy those homes.

The city is certainly broke and it doesn't have the citizens today or the businesses to afford to rebuild on its own schools and services like transportation.

The change in our name may seem slight, but it reflects something very significant to us and our clients. Businesses and other organizations can no longer afford to rely on vendors who generate lists of names for them. They need true partners -- professional search people who understand them and their individual needs and can work on their behalf to find exactly the right person.

The car we will offer will be aimed at young families who haven't been able to afford a new car. There isn't a positive image of Chinese products in the US now, but the grandson of this car will not be put out to US consumers until it has superior quality to its rivals.

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords

The first families that are feeling this in terms of a real squeeze are those that are on more restrictive incomes, those who can least afford it.

The first is the consumer outreach. Our certified professionals are continuously asking us to do more to promote the ASE program to consumers and the involvement with NCTS gives ASE a national platform for brand exposure that we could never afford to do otherwise.

The company's strategy of pushing for more market share with low-cost and affordable handsets has opened up new opportunities for it.

The concept really is driven by need and our need to attract teachers. If we employ about 2,400 new teachers every year, they must be able to afford a place to live.

James Cotton

The city can't afford to put this building back together, ... If FSU would work out, they would be a great player.

The city cannot afford to continue financing for the zoo.

The cities can't afford them. The bottom line, they can't afford to have their light bill tripled.

Michael Bolton

You cry when you see these kids around the world, ... would never be able to afford the (hearing aids) and had no knowledge they would be able to hear.

The fashion apparel will shift to air because their selling season is only six weeks, and then it goes to markdown. They can't afford to miss one day, ... But the price for the plane is going up, and space will evaporate very quickly as the Limited and Gap fill them up.

The core safeguards protecting our health and our communities have been cut to the bone in recent years, and we can't afford to keep slashing away.

Bill Vaughan

The census numbers tell us what we've known for years -- that soaring health care inflation is making health insurance unaffordable, so more folks go uninsured, and those who can afford it find their policies cover less and less. The data shows a continued deterioration in the use of employer-provided health insurance and increased reliance on Medicaid and public programs. If it had not been for more people moving into public programs, the number of uninsured would have increased another 2.3 million, the statistics show.

Rod Blagojevich

I'm going to make this announcement because our budget director is on vacation; he's out of town, ... I was thinking, too, when I was on this stage, why not make a change? I'm not even going to call the budget director or call the staffers and see whether or not we can afford it. We're not going to just double the funding, I'm going to increase it tenfold.

Claire McCaskill

We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.

John Schuerholz

We had to do it up against a very strict salary/payroll guideline, and that meant we had to go young in order to afford the replacements on our roster. And if we have to go young, we always prefer to go young with our own guys because we know we've done our due diligence drafting people, checking character of people, learning about their personalities and watching them grow and mature.

Steve Goodman

To afford these big stately houses they can't outfit them, ... People are waiting for things to get better so they're slowly working on the rooms. Some are taking three years to outfit their house.

This week we have focused on playing every play the right way. We can't afford for any of our players to take any plays off. Last week, we took too many plays off and turned the ball over twice.

Those type of players are blue-collar, gritty-type players. It's what we want here (at Pitt) and what the city (of Pittsburgh) wants. It affords us a very aggressive way to play the game.

This team is the premier emergency management consulting company in the United States. We are blessed they chose us and blessed we could afford it.

Theo Epstein

It was a fair trade because there was tremendous talent on both sides. The Red Sox are getting more established talent, but the Marlins are getting tremendous upside talent and affordable talent. One side was paying a lot more money in exchange for the more established players. They weren't perfect prospects and we weren't getting perfect players.