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1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're… — Anne McCaffrey
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the… — William Hazlitt
The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as… — Barbara Kingsolver
The standard is the same. Don't get me wrong, the main difference is the number of sparring partners. Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are the… — Unknown Author
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the… — Tony Robbins
I like cars that are ahead of their times, and that were noble failures because they were built to a higher standard than the consumer… — Jay Leno
Jesus did not die for pastors to have a well paid job. Neither was He raised on the cross just to raise our standard of… — Reinhard Bonnke
The paper standard is self-destructive. — Hans F. Sennholz
The gold standard, in one form or another, will prevail long after the present rash of national fiats is forgotten or remembered only in currency… — Hans F. Sennholz
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty. — Hans F. Sennholz
Translation rewrites a foreign text in terms that are intelligible and interesting to readers in the receiving culture. Doing so is akin to committing an… — Lawrence Venuti
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing friends and family.… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
It was a standard fantasy when you fell in love to imagine you could go back in time and find your beloved growing up, appear… — Norman Rush
My visions of the future are always pretty much standard issue. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and there are flying cars. — Joss Whedon
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard, — Olivia Wilde
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds. — Ernie Kovacs
How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up, aren’t you?’ their… — Tina Fey
You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great… — Ellen Page
I live full-time in the world of omnivores, and I've never wanted to leave. But the Standard American Diet (yes, it's SAD) got to me… — Mark Bittman
But theres a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like The Cosby Show that sets such a high standard of… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential… — Dan Rather
You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of… — Natalie Dormer
I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling.… — Tom Selleck
No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds… — Miley Cyrus

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