A Quote by Michael Chabon

The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low.

Michael Chabon

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Michael Chabon
American - Novelist
Born: May 24, 1963

A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.

Charles Brent

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

Fiona Apple

I like to think I'm handy, but I failed at being handy many a time.

Vanessa Ray

Democratically elected governments meekly requesting giant corporations to pay pitifully low levels of tax on their enormous profits is not a good look.

David Olusoga

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.

Eric Liu

A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

Marya Mannes

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.

Theodore Roosevelt

I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Shinzo Abe

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Hendrik Hertzberg

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

A. A. Milne

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

Lenny Kravitz

The life was good in Qatar but I did not enjoy the football. For me, 12 months was enough. The standard was low, but not that low. It was OK but the ambition was not there from the players. It was like playing for nothing. I didn't like that feeling.

Jay-Jay Okocha

One thing I will say about my father is that he was very much out in the forefront talking about his beliefs about being a complete fighter and attaching a philosophy to that and teaching it.

Shannon Lee

I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'