#afford

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#better #buyers #choice #cost #costs

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#all day #buy #car #clothes #day

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income. ↗

— Robert Half

#afford #income #live #pay #people

It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me - I spoke with him many times - that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#again #been #build #clear #fear

The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow. ↗

— Desmond Harrington

#back #come #down #going #sun

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#afford #aside #being #buy #care

Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment. ↗

— Bobby Hull

#back #bring #different #different reasons #doing

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#cannot #i #making #making money #money