Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the… — Berry Gordy Copy Share Image
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Today we are at a crossroads. The technology is available for two great options: The massive surveillance state, or the renewed freedom… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“The economy of your country shall never determine the size of your three square meals if you know you can rise against… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that… — Lee H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
KFC has no excuse for refusing to adopt these basic, minimal animal-welfare standards ... After two years of fruitless negotiations with the… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
I just think, obviously as players, we're held to a higher standard. I've had to watch myself on that, but I think… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then… — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do… — Alex Honnold Copy Share Image
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Frank [Sinatra] sang to you, not at you, like so many pop singers today. Even singers of standards. I never wanted to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Everybody calls me fat all the time, so I can’t wait to have a reason, instead of everybody just being a jerk!… — Kelly Clark Copy Share Image
By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Just because you read a report in the 'New York Times,' the 'Economist,' or, yes, 'The New Yorker' doesn't make it true.… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
As Speaker, I passed Maine's most aggressive carbon emission reduction and renewable energy standards, and in the Senate, I will prioritize moving… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence… — Jason Hartman Copy Share Image
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
There is a love-hate relationship between New York and the rest of the country, but New York is unarguably the city that… — Harold C. Schonberg Copy Share Image
The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image