Standard Boiling Point

Famous quotes containing the words standard, boiling and/or point:

    “A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Unmeasured power, incredible passion, enormous craft: no thought
    apparent but burns darkly
    Smothered with its own smoke in the human brain-vault: no thought
    outside; a certain measure in phenomena:
    The fountains of the boiling stars, the flowers on the foreland, the
    ever-returning roses of dawn.”
    —Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

    “I have not made a study of it, but believe that it is a minor point in the history of the war.”
    —Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928)