The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove… — Tony Parker Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other… — Arancha Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions.… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
I dont think men like a bad girl. Well, I havent had a date in a year so Im obviously doing something… — Yasmine Bleeth Copy Share Image
Americans have been given goals to achieve in Iraq, but not the standards by which to measure progress. And the only assurance… — Patrick J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Actually John, Paul Rutherford, and Trevor Watts, and several other rather well known English jazz musicians had got their training by joining… — Evan Parker Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget… — Arthur Twining Hadley Copy Share Image
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Considering all the different ways in which China has interacted with the world in the last 50 years, considering all the challenges… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to anyone who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone… — Mari Mancusi Copy Share Image
The Reformed tradition at the beginning of the twenty-first century is different as a consequence of this - and different in nontrivial… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I want young girls and women to feel like they connect with me and that they don't have to aspire for unreal… — Ananya Panday Copy Share Image
The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist.… — Chrissie Hynde 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
Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The reason there are outlaws is they don't like to adopt standards They like to do things their way. — Johnny Paycheck Copy Share Image
You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
I have said this many times in the past and will say it many times in the future I am sure: some… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to… — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your STANDARD OF LIVING. raise your STANDARD OF GIVING. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our aim is to set some kind of benchmark and standards for transparency and governance in private philanthropy. — Roshni Nadar Copy Share Image
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world… — Juliette Gordon Low Copy Share Image