Substandard Quotes

#1. The way you get a better world is, you don't put up with substandard anything.

Joe Strummer

#2. A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Aubrey Priest

#3. Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

Patrick DeWitt

#4. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.

Sylvia Porter

#5. Sex was a given, like food, and as such was to be relished when excellent and derided when substandard; it was an entertainment, like the theatre, and could thus be reviewed like a performance.

Margaret Atwood

#6. C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.

Linus Torvalds

#7. We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

Millard Fuller

#8. Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.

Bill Nelson

#9. There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

Steven Soderbergh

#10. Don't forget, the superior Betamax technology did not beat out the substandard VHS technology as the standard format for videotape in the 1980s.

Simon Sinek

#11. Our error today is that we do not expect a converted man to be a transformed man, and as a result of this error our churches are full of substandard Christians.

A.W. Tozer

#12. That woman could raise her children in whatever substandard fashion she saw fit, but how dare she let the consequences of her casual neglect injure someone else's.

Kimberly McCreight

#13. Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

Ed Markey

#14. No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

Derek R. Audette

#15. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.

Marisha Pessl

#16. I am not perfectly certain I believe in marriage. Why have just one bonbon when you can have the box?

Cassandra Clare

#17. [On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?

Dorothy Parker

#18. Happy international woman's day to all of the beautifully strong women across the world

Bethany Mota

#19. Thrift is an attractive idea until you get down to specifics.

Mason Cooley

#20. The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!

George Bernard Shaw

#21. My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

Brooke Hayward

#22. Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

Miuccia Prada

#23. The gain of lying is, not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we speak the truth.

Walter Raleigh