Standard Quotes
1108 quotes by 908 authors
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
— J. J. Abrams
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm pretty Sicilian if I've been crossed. I don't seek revenge, but I never forget. And I make it hard to repair, which is not…
— Amy Adams
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Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living…
— Mario Batali
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most…
— Bob Beauprez
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the…
— Ben Bernanke
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Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
— Norman Borlaug
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It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of…
— David Bowie
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
— Edmund Burke
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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests…
— Smedley Butler
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People want to be liked by other people, so they adopt other people's standards, but for me, my standard had always been true.
— Kirk Cameron
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Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of…
— Kirk Cameron
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
— John le Carre
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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.
— Raymond Chandler
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized…
— Ralph Chaplin
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You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer…
— Hillary Clinton
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any…
— Deepak Chopra
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