#afford

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made them think they could afford big arrogance and big greed over its resources. ↗

— Lynette Fromme

#always #arrogance #big #big enough #conversely

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#activity #affords #anyone #else #going

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100,000 to $200,000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#afford #coming #continue #costs #debt

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#although #away #carry #department #difficulty

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#best #court #ear #fool #foolish

And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks. ↗

— James Lipton

#first #first of all #force #i #me

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#been #follow #forward-looking #generous #government

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#even #expensive #film #french #got