The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear… — Janet Fitch 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 all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal… — Eric Liddell Copy Share Image
I would put primary emphasis on a good standard of living equitably distributed. It can't be equal, but one that eliminates the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smothers you into oblivion in… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of man's degeneration, and it is dangerous to judge… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
The wage of a people has meaning only when it arises from production. Every increase in production should benefit the whole people… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to. — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
It's so special to hear a room full of thousands of kids who are usually between 15 and 25 screaming along to jazz standards. — Laufey Copy Share Image
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U.S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P.… — George Packer Copy Share Image
I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
There is a statement often repeated in the Church, and while it is not in one of the Standard Church Works, it… — LeGrand Richards Copy Share Image
The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism,… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
