My life has had meaning, with the friendships full and valuable and essential to me. My children, Steve, Leslie, and Sam, are… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I'm with someone who's got very high standards, and he doesn't tolerate all these ridiculous vices very easily. That's not reason enough… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe Copy Share Image
It is difficult to retain your standards with the pressure of trying to make money, which always has its rules...It's hard to… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations. — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good.… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world.… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
I've been talking about retiring for years. It's my standard answer to the question, 'What are your future plans?' The truth is,… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement… — Liam Tancock Copy Share Image
When I purchased my home, it was very strict underwriting standards. I had to provide two pay stubs, two years' tax returns,… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of… — John Constable Copy Share Image
IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators. — Paul Thurrott Copy Share Image
“At the 150-minute point of sitting in a standard theater chair, the human buttocks die; once dead, they cannot be revived. They… — Michael J. Nelson Copy Share Image
As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We stand for a living wage. Wages are subnormal if they fail to provide a living for those who devote their time… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
