Famous quotes containing the words open and/or standards:
“... the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
—Clara Barton (18211912)
“With his brows knit, his mind made up, his will resolved and resistless, he advances, crashing his way through the host of weak, half-formed, dilettante opinions, honest and dishonest ways of thinking, with their standards raised, sentimentalities and conjectures, and tramples them all into dust. See how he prevails; you dont even hear the groans of the wounded and dying.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)