What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself. — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
If you're not doing things right yourself, it's unrealistic to think you can hold other people to a standard. — Scott Frost Copy Share Image
The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the… — Jim Evans Copy Share Image
My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for… — Fred Upton Copy Share Image
It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much… — Yuvraj Singh Copy Share Image
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The best advice bro: is think big, as big as you can possibly think, and shoot for that. The bigger you aim… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
“Are people who have been crazy held to unfair standards? Of course, but it’s not in your best interest to complain. If… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what… — Columbus Short Copy Share Image
The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The biggest takeaway for anyone seeking to write is this: don't go looking for the way other authors do their work. You… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson?… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a… — Simon Taylor-Davis Copy Share Image
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In sports, you get disqualified if you violate the rules, but in Ukrainian politics, no standards are at work. — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
By Hollywood standards I'm still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven… — Barry Zito Copy Share Image
Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
It is important for poets and writers today to know their shortcomings, and be able to edit their own work as well… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects. — Mark Knopfler Copy Share Image
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
