Quotes About Affordability

Tuition in the 1920s was $17 a semester;

Before the earthquake, medicine was hard to find. When you went to the hospital, you had to bring your own. In this country, you don't go there until the pain becomes unbearable. Otherwise, you don't consider yourself sick. It's better not to be sick if you can't pay for the medicine. That way, you go from bring in good health to being dead. Illness is a luxury you can't afford if you don't have the means. So you die without ever having been sick.

Life is so expensive.

My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it.

We've done both. We can do both. We can raise the quality and still have Walmart prices.

We have long understood that it is not income that matters but consumption. Stripped to its essentials, the argument is that if somehow the consumption of middle-class householders keeps up, if they can afford a new car every few years and the occasional exotic holiday, perhaps they will pay less attention to their stagnant monthly paychecks.

**(C)(P) PHARMAGENOCIDE- THE CATALYZING EFFECT IN WHICH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE OR DIFFICULT FOR THE ORDINARY PERSON TO BUY THEIR MEDICATIONS BECAUSE OF THE HIGH PRICE OF MEDICINES, SUCH THAT MANY END UP DYING.

Only technology, with its ability to provide orders of magnitude of improvement in capability and affordability, has the scale to confront problems such as poverty, disease, pollution, and the other overriding concerns of society today.

We want to help Canadians be able to get a home that they can afford.

I'm very cheap. My friends hate me.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

I strongly believe supply is the best way to address housing affordability.

During my elementary and middle school years, my mother made me and my siblings' lunches every single day - this was affordable for a Marine climbing the ranks and supporting a family of six.

I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don't have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.