Allowance Quote by William Proxmire Download Open image “The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.” — William Proxmire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allowance Arbitrary Standards Tainted
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Standards are just the most accepted ways of doing things. They're usually unquestioned, not challenged, not the most efficient, and not the best way… — Rick Otton Copy Share Image
That's the only thing you have to live up to: the standard you set for yourself. — Geno Smith Copy Share Image
“The issue here turned on the work content of a day's labor power, which Taylor defines in the phrase "a fair day's work." To… — Harry Braverman Copy Share Image
There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. — Ken Olsen Copy Share Image
The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get… — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
It's hard enougth to find intelligent life right here in Washington! — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for… — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die.… — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost,… — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer. — William Proxmire Copy Share Image
There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Anyhow, we obviously understand that, being a United States' ally and having a special relationship with it, the UK in its relations with Russian… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I'm a big advocate of a work-for-pay setup rather than an allowance that isn't attached to chores - it's a great way to impart… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In regard to the amount of difference between the races, we must make some allowance for our nice powers of discrimination gained by a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter: allowance; resistance.… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image