Standards Quotes · Page 47

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

— S. E. Hinton

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

— Richard Dawkins

So if you are evaluating others (or yourself!) in the investment field, think out some standards - apply them - interpret them.

— Warren Buffett

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now!…

— Richelle Mead

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

— Alan Hirsch

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard…

— Noam Chomsky

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness…

— Marilynne Robinson

Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must…

— Harvey Milk

Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings.…

— Glenn Beck

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's…

— Denzel Washington

You shouldn't have standards that inhibit you from writing It really doesn't make any difference if you are good or bad today.…

— William Stafford

It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell…

— Rachel Bloom

Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical…

— Michael Medved

There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;…

— Frederick C. Beiser

Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;…

— Debby Applegate

There appears to be a disturbing trend in this nation to try to force single moms to choose between their children and…

— Gloria Allred

When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes…

— Ayn Rand

I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to…

— Ice Cube

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage…

— Howard Zinn

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by…

— Ayn Rand

Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces…

— Bakari Kitwana

When a church reaches up beyond its group and tries to enforce its standards upon a society that doesn't accept these standards,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

There are guys I admire. Like Jimmy Stewart and - a more modern example - Tom Hanks. They managed to do it…

— Ryan Reynolds

If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

— Alfie Kohn

Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

— Charlie Munger

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on…

— Orrin Hatch

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes…

— Sonny Perdue

We are constantly auditing our supply chain. Making sure that safety standards are - are, you know, are the highest. We're making…

— Tim Cook

We need to stand together. Since I was elected leader of our party, we have repeatedly defeated the government over its attacks…

— Wes Streeting

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled]…

— Eyedea

My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are…

— Joss Whedon

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.

— George Santayana

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

— Robert Mugabe

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of…

— Anonymous

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

— Irving Babbitt

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I…

— Kendrick Lamar

Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

— Mark Kirk