Quotes and Sayings About Double Standard
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I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
-- Barbara Mikulski -
I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).
-- David Cannadine -
If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?
-- David Wong -
This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.
-- Doc Hastings -
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
-- Francis Crick -
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
-- Frank Murphy -
But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.
-- Glenn Danzig -
I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
-- Lee Konitz -
Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
-- Lloyd Bridges -
Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.
-- Mary Kay Ash -
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
-- Oriana Fallaci -
A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
-- Oscar Levant -
Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
-- Paul Volcker -
I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.
-- Peter Banks -
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
-- Publilius Syrus -
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
-- Rachel Griffiths -
My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.
-- Sarah Millican -
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
-- Thomas Fuller -
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
-- Vera Miles -
There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
-- Verne Troyer -
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
-- W. H. Auden -
I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
-- Warren Buffett -
What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
-- Whitey Herzog -
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
-- Winston Churchill
