Standard Quotes

1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double… — Denzel Washington
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. — George Washington
To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every… — Simone Weil
In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her? — Jessamyn West
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the… — Ellen G. White
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain. — Ellen G. White
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or… — Charles E. Wilson
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. — E. O. Wilson
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West… — Naomi Wolf
My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us,… — John Woolman
I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else. — Fareed Zakaria
I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview. — Fareed Zakaria
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and… — Martin Filler
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work… — Hanna Rosin
Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a… — Douglas Rushkoff
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very… — Mark Twain
When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion… — Sam Harris
I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to… — Ayn Rand
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she… — Theodore Dreiser
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. — Mark Twain
Man is a machine which reacts blindly to external forces and, this being so, he has no will, and very little control of himself, if… — P D Ouspensky
It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God… — Marilynne Robinson
In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be… — Albert Schweitzer

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