What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.
You have to figure out what that is, and you have to make a plan to get to it. And the plan has got to have a timeline. You have to choose something that you can afford to do and then lock it in and passionately do it.
This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.
Dream of a world where poverty is history, dream of a world where we don't spend those obscene billions on arms, knowing full well that a tiny fraction of those budgets of death would ensure that children everywhere had clean water to drink, could afford the cheap inoculations against preventable diseases, would have good schools, adequate healthcare and decent homes.
Market share is king. You cannot afford to replace lost market share.
There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them.
Excuses cost a dime and that's why the poor could afford a lot of it.
None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting. . . because of what it does to us.
Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.
Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.
He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.
The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine. " In order to even cut the space in your life to pursue what most people literally cannot afford a moment to pursue. So, yeah. I think that not only is that the role of the artist, but it might be a requirement.
Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.
If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in their predicament? Or are basic rights of human existence confined to the civilized societies that are wealthy enough to afford them? Our values are defined by what we will tolerate when it is done to others.
I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions. "
We simply cannot afford any further delay in providing the IMF with the resources it requires to help contain the threat of further financial and political instability around the world.
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
We cannot afford four more years of this misguided socialist policies from President Obama and his administration.