Famous quotes containing the words standard, modern and/or french:
“... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to Gods will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I dont see what for French Canadians to go to defend a bunch of Poles. I dont get that at all. I dont see what they mean to us. And they all one kind government much same like the other.”
—Emeric Pressburger (19021988)