Standards Quotes · Page 17

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

— David Wong

If you are an American, you have got to defend the standards of the presidency of the United States.

— Ana Navarro

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now -…

— Nina Simone

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including…

— Serge Lang

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

— John Dufresne

You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.;…

— Ludwig von Mises

The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy.

— John S. Watson

In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for…

— Charlie Munger

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.

— Fernando Perez

I think there should be national standards on the use of legal force.

— Hillary Clinton

God as 'He,' as a patriarchal thing, is offensive to me. It's standard fare for America, 'He, He, He.' Every time I…

— Patty Griffin

I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the…

— Wolfgang Schauble

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply…

— Jonathan Turley

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

— Shirin Ebadi

A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.

— Laisenia Qarase

I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an…

— Yasmin Mogahed

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank…

— Ed Balls

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a…

— Ben Bernanke

If wildly variable refereeing standards not yet a crisis, we are reaching a tipping point. And it may take more than the…

— Robbie Savage

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make…

— Bertrand Russell

I first met the brand [Didier Dubot] when I went to an event for them on Top of The Standard. It was…

— Julia Restoin Roitfeld

I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not…

— Vaclav Klaus

If you had a national grid with one operator, you had twenty or even a hundred operators, if you don't have the…

— Spencer Abraham

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

— James Bovard