Until we begin to discover the national values that for centuries have allowed us to rise above our natures and act as… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
I think that when it comes to issues of trade, I think it is important for us to be in favor of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
And the trajectory that our debt is taking now beyond $14 trillion is going to have an impact on our currency. It… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily care about the money aspect of it. I just want to be valued where I'm at. If I am… — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
A lot of people will call me nuts or crazy, but I've always been pretty stable. By some people's standards, I might… — Rachel Miner Copy Share Image
The best places to live, work, and visit are those places that are willing to uphold their standards in the face of… — Ed McMahon Copy Share Image
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz… — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
[An audience conditioned by a lifetime of television-watching is so corrupted that] their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
As a member of the State Board of Education, I have been a part of meetings concerning new standards for our public… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I don't have a problem with the concept that miracles might occasionally occur at moments of great significance, where there is a… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours,… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been… — Richard V. Allen Copy Share Image
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played… — Robert Glasper 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
Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection… — Jane D. Hull Copy Share Image
You have to be a well-rounded leader. You can't fly by the seat of your pants anymore. You have to be incredibly… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“You are heading towards the top if you raise the bar of your standards inch by inch each hour! There is no… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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