Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
America's skyscrapers were not built by public funds nor for a public purpose: they were built by the energy, initiative and wealth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Americans deserve an attorney general that will be honest with them, they deserve an attorney general who will uphold the basic standards… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what… — Jackie DeShannon Copy Share Image
Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every… — Jewel Copy Share Image
Our approach has worked for us. Look at the fun we, our managers, and our shareholders are having. More people should copy… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
But how can you speed up the transformation of society in a country as large as Russia? Those sounding the moral outcry… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz Copy Share Image
We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and… — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test. — R.J. Rushdoony 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
I would require every producer of food to follow and have enforced a standard safety plan. We know how to produce safe… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene. All… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
