Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his successful effort to double fuel economy… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People have asked why the new currency introduced was different in size and thickness from the old. This is because the new… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
High personal standards aren't enough for organizational excellence. You've got to be intolerant of low standards in others. . . . If… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet you’ in this… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If… — Millicent Fawcett Copy Share Image
We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational,… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
There is a direct correlation between what al Qaeda says and what it does. And the one thing that has been the… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement… — Liam Tancock Copy Share Image
Let's say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands.… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Even in the business of corporations honesty is the best policy, and the companies that have acted in accordance with the highest… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
The #SwimSexy campaign is redefining standards of beauty, and I'm proud to be a part of it. My hope is that this… — Philomena Kwao Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their… — Marion G. Romney Copy Share Image
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
People should be allowed to roll out of bed and go to an interview; people shouldn't be telling you, 'You can't curse… — Daya Copy Share Image
Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization.… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as… — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
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
It frequently happens that an element of the standard of living which set out with being primarily wasteful, ends with becoming, in… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image