Standard Gray Console

Famous quotes containing the words standard, gray and/or console:

    “I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s 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)

    “Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
    From this distance in time,
    it seems the color
    of iris, rotting and turning purpler,

    but it was only
    the usual gray rock”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.”
    —Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)