Standards Quotes · Page 7

At the end of the day, the Army is a standards-based organization.

— Mark Esper

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

— Stefan Molyneux

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

— Katherine Dunn

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

— Jean Toomer

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

— Vijay Shankar

I have standards. Well, okay, they're love standards, but I have them.

— Rachel Vail

There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.

— Anonymous

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

— Martti Ahtisaari

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.

— Bill Murray

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of…

— Anonymous

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

— Zygmunt Bauman

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards by which we…

— Krista Tippett

Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.

— Jerrold Nadler

Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.

— Myles Munroe

Universal love is the standard-sized socket that everyone can plug into. No adapting mechanism required.

— Allison Mackie

You must form your own fashions in a way which demonstrates that you flout the standards from knowledge, not from ignorance. .…

— Caroline Stevermer

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when…

— DeForest Soaries

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or…

— Dean Kamen

Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth…

— Carter G. Woodson

Media has changed dramatically, as you and I know. We're in a world now where you're rewarded for being outrageous. Punditry has…

— Mark Leibovich

Trade deals are not the vehicle for raising or lowering standards of protection for consumers, the environment, workers or anyone else. Regulations…

— Kenneth Clarke

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and…

— Fisher Ames

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then…

— Herman Melville

It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step…

— John F. Kennedy

Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of…

— Ann Bridge

That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have…

— Helen McCloy

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived…

— Ernest Sosa

Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin…

— Lawrence Venuti

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

— Colin Powell

Wealth is not the standard of worth. Some people put cash before character.

— Billy Sunday

The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.

— Andreas Moritz

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

— Noam Chomsky

I am committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct for government officials.

— John F. Kerry

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren't real.

— Valerie Harper

I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

— Carly Simon