Standard Quotes
1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors
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Recreation in the open is of the finest grade. The moral benefits are all positive. The individual with any soul cannot live long in the…
— Arthur Carhart
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We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of…
— Ron Paul
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Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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In short, if we adhere to the standard of perfection in all our endeavors, we are left with nothing but mathematics and the White Album.
— Daniel Gilbert
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Prepare yourselves mentally. A mission requires a great deal of mental preparation. You must memorize missionary discussions, memorize scriptures, and oftentimes learn a new language.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected…
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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The standard is clear. If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing,…
— David A. Bednar
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Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health,…
— Nathan Deal
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I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles,…
— Alan Keyes
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
— Walter Lippmann
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There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high…
— Jascha Heifetz
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.
— Neville Marriner
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Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right…
— Angelina Grimke
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The standard of matrimony is erected by affection and purity, and does not depend upon the height, or bulk, or color, or wealth, or poverty…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the…
— Franz Boas
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
— Edward Sapir
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The Church has been and now is unalterably opposed to gambling in any form whatever. It is opposed to any game of chance, occupation, or…
— Heber J. Grant
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I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.
— Wes Montgomery
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I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and…
— Warren Haynes
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... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's…
— Albert Lee
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