Standards Quotes · Page 64

Many countries have food safety systems from farm to table. Everybody involved in the food supply is required to follow standard food…

— Marion Nestle

It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they…

— Anna Julia Cooper

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were…

— Emun Elliott

I think that in the first place, why we can get excited about [Buckminster ] Fuller, why it's plausible that people might…

— Jonathon Keats

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

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards…

— Simon Mainwaring

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

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

I don't have expectations with people, but I have very high standards for myself. The only time I get disappointed in life…

— Chronixx

Hence we say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God.…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex.…

— Virginia Gildersleeve

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the…

— J. R. D. Tata

There are programs such as the NSA paying RSA $10 million to use an insecure encryption standard by default in their products.…

— Edward Snowden

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people…

— Anonymous

“If you don't break your own standards, you will not reach new heights and levels. It is by stretching our limits that…

— Israelmore Ayivor

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

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

— Marilynne Robinson

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

— Vince McMahon

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by…

— Sophia Loren

The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I…

— Lupita Nyong'o

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

— Jerry Scott

I'm a simple man with very simple tastes and low standards.

— Redman

Everyone caved, adopted loose [accounting] standards, and created exotic derivatives linked to theoretical models. As a result, all kinds of earnings, blessed…

— Charlie Munger