We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The… — James Cook Copy Share Image
The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
The models we have, and the standards we are expected to maintain, come to us via heterosexuality as a normative state. Heterosexuality--whatever… — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
Carbon dioxide is natural, it is not harmful, it is a part of Earth's lifecycle. And yet we're being told that we… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
I think that different leaders, whether it's Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, or Paul Ryan, saying that we're not going to turn on… — Steve King Copy Share Image
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global… — Kimberlee Green Copy Share Image
Wars are generally fought for material things; they're not fought over ideals. After we get into them, we are told we are… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The trouble is nowadays that parts of the media operate in a very partisan way. There's no point in complaining about it,… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
It's a standard thing you hear from startup people - that their product is somehow improving the world. And if you follow… — Cathy O'Neil Copy Share Image
I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding… — Peter Roskam Copy Share Image
In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen… — Milt Kahl Copy Share Image
I love songs, and I love songwriting, and there's a standard of songwriting within Chicago blues in particular. I don't like the… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist,… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I wound up going to the Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, which was a really life-changing experience that's still… — Barrett Wilbert Weed Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to notice Ruby on Rails. It has had a huge effect both in and outside the Ruby community...… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXVI: The thickness of the proposal required to win a multimillion dollar contract is about one millimeter per million dollars.… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
