Famous quotes containing the words content and/or standards:
“I am content to live it all again,
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind mans ditch.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religionor a new form of Christianitybased on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
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