I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret. — Joey Votto Copy Share Image
I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them. — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires. — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems… — Peter Asher Copy Share Image
If a leader engages in sinful activity that becomes the standard, if he is strict that becomes the standard. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I have got lots of confidence in my own ability and I know I have got to keep up my standards. — Gervinho Copy Share Image
God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards. — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they’re] just more extreme in their response to a culture… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry;… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out… — W. Brian Arthur Copy Share Image
I set very high standards, normally for myself. For other people, I try to lower my standards. — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
