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1108 Standard quotes by 880 unique authors

The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness. — Confucius
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica… — Douglas Adams
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with… — Joseph Heller
Okay, I'll wear the Bite Me shirt,[...]It'll be my standard response to anyone who tries to hit on me." I giggle. "Someone can come up… — Mari Mancusi
you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard — Paulo Coelho
Pablito, the Bible was meant to be a bridge, not a wedge. It's the greatest love story ever told, about God's enduring and unconditional love… — Alex Sanchez
the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent… — Greg Mortenson
He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior. — Emilie Autumn
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… — Christopher Hitchens
....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and a high standard… — Jane Goodall
Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts… — Albert Einstein
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation… — Nora Roberts
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find… — Glen Cook
The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still… — Andy Warhol
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The handy thing about being a father is that the historic standard is so pitifully low. — Michael Chabon
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more… — Anais Nin
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. — Karl Lagerfeld
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have… — Charlotte Bronte
All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But… — David Hume
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed… — Greg L. Bahnsen
The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the… — Noam Chomsky

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