Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
Women, because they are not generally the principal breadwinners, can be perhaps most useful as the trail blazers, working along the bypaths, doing the unusual job that men cannot afford to gamble on.
The way that these girls keep themselves skinny is awful, isn't it? By vomiting or using hard drugs - which I can't afford.
My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.
One cannot afford to be a realist.
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.
The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything. . . coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you cant afford it, you can get a scholarship.
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it. . . . we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
You think about the Pledge of Allegiance, "liberty and justice for all. " This is at the core of the American creed. The creation of the Legal Services Corporation was a recognition that low-income people have trouble being able to afford a lawyer.
Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human
What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places.
The culture of the hop. . . so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
