Standards Quotes · Page 4

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is…

— Edward Tufte

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.

— Barbara Mikulski

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph…

— Susan Sontag

I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD)…

— Mark Bittman

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in…

— Vijay Mallya

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

— Shirley Williams

I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go…

— Tim Winton

The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to…

— Edward S. Herman

As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which…

— James A. Michener

I think that people who study the scriptures get a dimension to their life that nobody else gets and that can’t be…

— Bruce R. McConkie

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what…

— Calvin Coolidge

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals…

— Billy Graham

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers…

— Zooey Deschanel

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards…

— Tariq Ramadan

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by…

— Anonymous

I was raised thinking that moral and ethical standards are universals that apply equally to everyone. And these values aren't easily compatible…

— Charles Stross

I think we cannot have a double standard. We cannot see our art as different from the reality. We cannot use two…

— Ai Weiwei

The politics of grievance is pervasive. It's spreading. And when you have an economy that has been ripped to shreds like this,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I didn't audition or anything like that. But I went into John Loganhis office... It was his screening room in his office,…

— Brent Spiner

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration, recognition, respect, and the…

— Andrea Dworkin

In 30 years of public service, I have had no scandals. I have high ethical standards. I am most proud of my…

— Bernie Sanders

First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One…

— Alexander Pope

When a married person uses pornography, or is unfaithful, it compromises not just his (or her) purity, but also compromises the spouse's…

— Christine O'Donnell

I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white…

— Gillian Tans