Best Affording Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Simplicity comes at a cost; the rich can't stand for, forget affording.”

Life Rich Living Tough Simplicity Wealthy Affluent Task Affording

“One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.”

Government Would Be Purpose Worst Errors Protection Interfere Propositions Admission Affording

Author:Nassau William Senior

“However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home.”

May Home Needed Benefits West Population Forests Parks National Parks Affording

Author:Benton MacKaye

“If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.”

Ifs Want Soul Names Capable Entertainment Distress Cheerfulness Affording

Book:Poems and essays

Source: Poems and essays

“It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.”

Opportunity Late Investment Passing Passings Eras Too Late Investors Recognizing Advent New Era New Opportunity Affording

Author:Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.

“Lying is a disgraceful vice, and one that Plutarch paints in most disgraceful colors, when he says that it is "affording testimony that one first despises God, and then fears men." It is not possible more happily to describe its horrible, disgusting, and abandoned nature; for can we imagine anything more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God.”

Men Firsts Lying Imagine Color Regard Brave Paint Vices Horrible Coward Abandoned Despise Disgusting Testimony Disgraceful Affording

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The young man who addresses himself in stern earnest to organizing his life-his habits, his associations, his reading, his study, his work-stands far more chance of rising to a position affording him opportunity to exercise his organizing abilities than the fellow who dawdles along without chart or compass, without plan or purpose, without self-improvement and self-discipline.”

“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.”

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."”

“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. Also, a comic vision is my natural world view, but I've grown up in spite of myself and I can pass the comic twist if it detracts from what the characters need. Yes, the life of a saint is hard.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.”

Men Trying Wells Use Enjoy Lines Degrees Excellence Definitions Faculty Scope Affording Definition Of Happiness

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.”

Evil Silent Indifference Justification Insidious Affording

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Your mindset matters. If you don't have the mindset of a wealthy person ("How can I afford it?") versus a poor person ("I can't afford it."), you will never achieve wealth.”

Ifs Persons I Can Matter Wealth Poor Achieve Mindset Wealthy Versus Affording

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned. Therefore I feel it's incumbent on me personally to just contribute something, to add to a collective voice that needs to be here right now, to build it up to a tipping point, to make the world aware that women's rights still have to be addressed and that the word 'feminism' has been devalued and needs to be reclaimed.”

“My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.”

Littles Two Hard Hands Jobs Found Father House Hurt My Own College Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Heavy Dirty Showers Soap Lava Two Jobs Affording Heavy Things

Author:Mike Huckabee

“I stand on the shoulders of giants that have gone before me, in terms of affording people like myself, women, the access to democracy, the vote, medical treatment, education, everything that I've been given. It's all been earned.”

People Given Term Gone Democracy Vote Access Medical Shoulders Giants Treatment Medical Treatment Affording

Author:Annie Lennox

“If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.”

People Ifs Knows May Artist Process Chance Impossible Industry Connections Lifetime Opening Fascinating Consistently Pulling Curtains Affording

Author:Nigel Lythgoe

“Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.”

Interesting Quality Boys Needed Training Meetings Clubs Developing Discussion Pleasant Serving Public Life Affording

Book:The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

Source: The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs

“I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.”

Thinking Reason Shows Opportunity Approach Harder Comic Showing Off Often Is Affording

Book:Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.”

Kind I Can Hate Affording Lack Of Time

Author:Akira Kurosawa

“A proper disposition of time leaves a man at leisure in the very bustle of affairs; without delaying the attention of his concerns to the last or giving them unnecessary application at first: it affords a season for everything by affording everything its proper season.”

Men Giving Firsts Lasts Time Attention Concern Seasons Affair Application Leisure Unnecessary Disposition Bustle Affording

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”

People Thinking School Time Change Education Society Students Debt Acquire Traps Unlikely Loan Time To Think Tuition Affording Access To Education

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.”

“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation by others, thus affording them the possibility of dignity; they loathe liberty because it throws them back on their own abilities and resources, thus confronting them with the possibility of insignificance.”

Men Ability Liberty Possibility Protect Resources Dignity Libertarian Libertarianism Humiliation Confronting Loathe Insignificance Affording

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real - and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself.”

Mean Has Beens Art Real Reason Church Art Is Substitutes Transformed Sole Adequate Transcendent Binding Transcendental Providers Transcending Affording

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Singer and actress Gertrude Lawrence once overheard an assistant describing the beauty of a coat she knew she could never even dream of affording. Having ascertained the exact shop, coat and price, Ms. Lawrence returned from her lunch break wearing that coat, apparently in order to flaunt and emphasize her greater purchasing power and, by inference, her superior status.”

Dream Order Class Break Greater Actresses Singers Superiors Shops Lunch Coats Describing Assistants Inference Purchasing Gertrude Purchasing Power Affording Lunch Break

Author:Sheridan Morley

“Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

“The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery”

Play Dog Favors Mastery Propensity Affording

Book:A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

Source: A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism

“People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.”

People World Needs Opportunity Language Diversity Tradition Obstacles Treasure Affording

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.”

“Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.”

World Two Earth Life Is Choices Heaven Hell Worst Touched Glimpse Heaven And Hell Affording

Book:Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity

Source: Seeing the Unseen, Expanded Edition: A 90-Day Devotional to Set Your Mind on Eternity

“What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.”

World Way Humans Kind Doe Done Helping Natural Human Beings Filled Humanitarian Hospitals Contemplating Scope Things Done Affording

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Exercise Ambition Army Amusement Affording

Author:Winston Churchill

“In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.”

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.”

“Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.”

People Hours Minutes People In Your Life Affording

Author:Jim Rohn

“Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them”

Built Luxury Assets Deep Thought Mind Your Own Business Affording

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.”

Heart Life Is Life Is Short Life Is Too Short Short Life Living In The Past Affording

Author:Joel Osteen

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“[P]rogress, however, has not sufficiently infiltrated the Interior Ministry, affording protection to those who participated in the Bytyqi murders and other egregious Milosevic-era crimes.”

Crime Murder Protection Eras Ministry Interiors Affording

Author:Avis Bohlen

“An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building.”

Ends Earth Form Science Building Highest Following Invention Iron Lightning Roof Crooked Affording

Book:Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin

“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.”