Standards Quotes

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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
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. — Edmund Burke
We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards… — Richard Burr
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
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97 per cent of… — Herman Cain
People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes… — David Cameron
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
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
You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people… — Kris Carr
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
Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. — Raymond Chandler
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
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. — Lord Chesterfield
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
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. — Noam Chomsky
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of… — Noam Chomsky
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
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what has been the… — Chris Christie
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any… — John Henrik Clarke
I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values… — Hillary Clinton

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