Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun.
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
He had so much money that he could afford to look poor.
Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.
Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.