“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.” SchoolAmericaTechnologyEconomyComfortStandardsScientistSafetyMilesCompromiseFuelVehicleEngineeringGallonsMitFuel Economy Author:Ed Markey
“The home is a woman's natural background.... From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly as it was possible in the commercial world, those standards of comfort and grace which are apparent in a lovely home.” WorldHomeNaturalGracePolicyComfortStandardsStoresLovelyBackgrounds Author:Hortense Odlum
“No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.” IfsUseGrowthEffortClassStyleCircumstancesComfortComfortableStandardsPopulationAccustomedPopulation Growth Author:Millicent Fawcett
“A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.” IfsWellsMayWholeBeliefCompanyComfortEssentialsStandardsExpectationsPressesMetaphorReasonableModeratesSomething BetterSustenancePicnicsSanguine Author:P. D. James
“If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.” IfsWorldCultureOpportunityGenerationsInformationThis WorldComfortSucceedStandardsResourcesFocusedEndlessPrivacyLongevityInheritanceNavigate Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.” IfsGivingShouldBelieveLittlesCommonOughtComfortSafeStandardsCharityIncomeLuxuryGenerositySettlingEtcSparesAmusementCharitableExpendituresHamperCharity And Generosity Author:C. S. Lewis
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.” WantChildrenMotherMomComfortHighestStandardsSurroundAnticipateHappy Mothers DayMother LoveMother Care Book:The Outlook Source: The Outlook