A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.
But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some short-term assistance that may or may not be there a month from now.
There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.
We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society.
Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these ideas shouldn't only be for people who can afford to go to a museum or a symposium in the "better part of town. "
Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
We cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore.
Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.
Writers feel that they can't afford to wait. They must do it now, and they are so clever, and there is so much competition. I'm quite happy to wait, and quite confident that the muses will cross the stream.
If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.
A civilization has the ethics it can afford
We can afford all that we need; but we can not afford all [that] we want.
Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.
With the loss of the American dollar as its own currency and its devaluation, I think that people will not even be able to afford bread and milk. They're facing a real crisis in America and I think the solution is Islam.
You're mortal, and only a mortal can afford to be romantic. When we conquered death, we murdered love.