Minimum Standards Contained

Famous quotes containing the words minimum, standards and/or contained:

    “After decades of unappreciated drudgery, American women just don’t do housework any more—that is, beyond the minimum that is required in order to clear a path from the bedroom to the front door so they can get off to work in the mourning.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (20th century)

    “To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man’s character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Time present and time past
    Are both perhaps present in time future,
    And time future contained in time past.
    If all time is eternally present
    All time is unredeemable.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)