Standards Quotes

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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
What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely… — Gerard Manley Hopkins
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
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
The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards… — Daniel Ellsberg
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
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
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country… — Jim Costa
With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor… — Noam Chomsky
The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a… — Jules Henry
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
I certainly didn't think of myself as gifted. The standards for being gifted in my environment were if you were good in Little League or… — James Cameron
I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards. — Jon Heder
I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see… — Serena Williams
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become… — Ernest Hemingway
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
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
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole… — Lawrence Kohlberg
There was no time for scholarly details, and, besides, I have always believed that a man can fairly be judged by the standards and taste… — Hunter S. Thompson

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